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OF THE 

SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE, 

ADOPTED BY 

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, 

AT THEIR ANNUAL MEETING IN DECEMBER, 

1847, . 

(TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED THE ACT OF INCOR- 
PORATION, AND THE SUBSEQUENT ACTS 
PASSED IN AMENDMENT THEREOF.) 

VARIOUS 

RESOLUTIONS OF THE LEGISLATURE, 

EXTRACTS 

FROM GOVERNORS' MESSAGES, 

A^D 

OTHER IMPORTANT MATTERS 
RELATING TO THE COLLEGE. 



" Emollit mores, nee sinit esse feros." — Ovid, A. D. 6. 

t£ Not words but sacrifices, devotion and service, disinterestedness, courtesy to others, 
and that true self-respect which is inseparable from modesty of self-estimation." 

Chancellor Harper. A. D. 184G. 



COLUMBIA. S. C. 

I'KINTKI) 1!V A. s. JOHNSTON. 
1848. 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Resolution of the Board of Trustees, appointing Commit- 
tee to report Laws '. . 1 

Report of Committee 1 

ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE RELATING TO 
THE COLLEGE. 

An Act to establish a College at Columbia 3 

An Act authorizing the Commissioners for disposing of the 
public land in the town of Columbia, to deliver up cer- 
tain Bonds therein mentioned, and to convey certain 
squares to the Trustees of the South Carolina College 6 

An Act to aid the establishment of the South Carolina Col- 
lege, and to amend an Act entitled " An Act to estab- 
lish a College at Columbia" 7 

An Act to ratify and confirm the acts and proceedings of per- 
sons heretofore acting as Trustees of the College of 
Columbia-; 9 

An Act to make appropriation for the support of a Pro- 
fessor of Chemistry, in the South Carolina College 10 

An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the Orphan 
House of Charleston, to select the number of youths there- 
in mentioned, from those educated and maintained on the 
bounty of that institution, who shall be allowed to com- 
plete their education at the South Carolina College 11 

An Act to alter the time of the stated meeting of the 
Board of Trustees of the South Carolina College, and for 
other purposes therein mentioned 12 

An Act to prohibit the Students of the South Carolina Col- 
lege from using the State House in Columbia, in future, 
to hold their Commencement Ball in 13 

Prom " An Act to make appropriations for the year of our 
Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, and for 
other purposes therein mentioned," 14 

An Act to alter and amend an Act entitled " An Act to 
establish a College at Columbia" 14 

Extract from an Act passed 17th Debember, 1831, entitled 
" An Act to incorporate certain societies, and for other 
purposes" ,. 15 

An Act to vest certain squares and lots of woodland in 



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IV TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

the town of Columbia, in the Trustees of the South Caro- 
lina College 15 

An Act concerning Vagrants 16 

From " An Act to reduce all Acts and clauses of Acts in 
relation to the Militia of this State, to one Act, and to 

alter and amend the same" . 18 

Extract from " An Act to make appropriations for the year 
commencing in October, one thousand eight hundred and 

forty-one" ;'_ 99 

BY-LAWS. 

Chap. 1. Of the Board of Trustees and their Secretary. _„ _ 19 

Chap. 2. Of the Officers of the College. ____. 20 

Chap. 3. Of the admission of Students 22 

Chap. 4. Of the Classes, Course of Studies and Instruc- 
tion 22 

Chap. 5. Of Examinations, Exercises and Public Exhibi- 
tions 23 

Chap. 6. Of the Faculty and Government 23 

Chap. 7. Of Discipline 26 

Chap. 8. Of Sessions and Vacations 29 

Chap. 9. Of the Commencement and Degrees ! 29 

Chap. 10. Of the College Fees 1 31 

Chap. 1 1 . Of the Students' Apartments 31 

Chap. 12. Of the College Treasurer 32 

Chap. 13. Of the Library and Librarian 33 

Chap. 1 4. Of the Bursarship and Commons 35 

Chap. 15. Of the Marshall and the College Buildings 38 

Chap. 16. Of Offences, Rewards and Punishments 40 

Chap. 17. Miscellaneous 43 

Chap. 18. Course of Studies, Admission, &c 44 

RESOLUTIONS OF LEGISLATURE, AND MESSAGES 
OF GOVERNORS. 

Reference to Resolution of 1815, appropriating $6,000 for 

Chemical apartment 47 

Reference to Resolution of 1815, as to two students from 

City Council 47 

Resolution of 1823, concerning Law Professorship 47 

Report of Committee on the College, 1823___ 47 

Reference to Resolution of 1823, appropriating $5,000 for 

Library ._. ! 48 

Report of Committee on the College, 1824. _ 48 

Report of Committee on the College, 1825 50 

Resolution of 1825, requiring the Faculty to report a sys- 
tem for the regulation of the public schools 51 

Reference to Report of Comptroller General on College 

disbursements, 1827 ___ — __-___-__--- -- 52 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. V 

Reference to Report of Committee on the College, 183 1 _ ._. 52 

Extract from Gov. Hamilton's Message, 1832 52 

Extract from Gov. Hayne's Message, 1833 52 

Reference to Report of Committee on the College, 1834 53 

Reference to Resolution of 1835, as to new houses for 

Professors 53 

Reference to Resolution of 1835, requiring Trustees to re- 
port Tuition money 53 

Resolution of 1835, as to suppressing bawdy houses, &c 53 

Extract from Gov. McDuffie's Message, 1835 54 

Reference to Resolution of 1 836, making various appropri- 
ations 58 

Resolution of 1836, as to renewal of charters of incorpo- 
ration 58 

Extract from Gov. McDuffie's Message, 1836 - 58 

Extract from Gov. Butler's Message, 1837 62 

The same, 1838 -1 63 

Reference to Resolution of 1838, establishing annual fund 

for increase of Library , 63 

Reference to Resolution of 1838, concerning Dr. Cooper's 

Library 63 

Thesame, 1839 64 

Extract from Gov. Noble's Message, 1839 64 

Extract from Gov. Henegan's Message, 1840 64 

Reference to Report of Committee on College Commence- 
ment, 1840 64 

Reference to Resolution of 1841, loaning American Ar- 
chives to College Library 64 

Extract from Gov. Richardson's Message, 1841 65 

Thesame, 1842 65 

Beference to Resolution of 1844, transferring various books 

to College Library 66 

Reference to Resolution of 1843, as to two rooms for Li- 
brary 66 

Extract from Gov. Hammond's Message, 1843 66 

Thesame, 1844 68 

Report of Committee on Greek Professorship, 1844 68 

Reference to Resolution of 1845, as to appropriations 70 

Reference to Resolution of 1845, as to committee of Trus- 
tees to attend examinations. 70 

Extract from Gov. Aiken's Message, 1845 70 

The same, 1846 71 

Report of Committee on the College, 1846 71 

Extract from Gov. Johnson's Message, 184Z 72 

MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS CONNECTED WITH 
THE COLLEGE. 

Order of Procession at College Commencement 73 

Report of Committee in 1 836, au to expenses mm 74 



VI TABLE OP CONTENTS. 

Expenses in 1847 75 

K;nl\ Legislation as to Education 75 

Extracl from Ramsay's Eistorj qf South Carolina 77 

Extract from Mills' Statistics of South Carolina. 78 

Extract from A A 1785, establishing several colleges 79 

Decision Of Couri of Appeals on the Vagranl Act. 1836 79 

Extract from Eulogy on II S. Lega?e,by W. C. Preston — 80 
Resolution of Board of Trustees, concerning the Manning 

Scholarship 81 

Extract from Memoir of Hon. II. W. DeSanssure 82 

Extract from an Address by Col. S. W. Trotti, at the 

Citadel Academy 82 

Resolution of Board of Trustees, appointing Visitors to 

attend examinations .. 84 

President Maxcy's Address to the Baccalaureate, 1816 85 

President Preston's inaugural Address, 1 846 90 

Extract from an Address by Hon. C. J. Jenkins, at Athens, 

1836 94 

Extract from an Address delivered before the Euphradian 

and Clariosophic Societies, by C. G. Memminger, 1842- _ 97 
List of Members of the Board of Trustees, and of the 

Officers of the College, December, 1847 100 

Index 101 



1. RESOLUTION 

APPOINTING COMMITTEE. 



Resolved^ That E. Bellinger, jr. Judge Wardlaw, Hon. 
W. F. Colcock and Judge Withers, be appointed a Committee 
to report to the Board, at its next meeting, in such form as they 
may deem suitable for the press, all Acts, and clauses of Acts, 
passed, and all Resolutions adopted, by the Legislature, in rela- 
tion to the South Carolina College ; and also the By-laws es- 
tablished for the regulation of the College ; together with such 
matters connected with the said Acts, Resolutions and By-laws, 
as the Committee may think useful for purposes of explanation 
or reference. 

December, 1846. 



2. REPORT OF COMMITTEE. 

The Committee to whom it was referred to " report to' the 
Board at this meeting, in such form as they may think suitable 
for the press, all Acts and clauses of Acts passed, and all Reso- 
lutions adopted, by the Legislature in relation to the South Car- 
olina College ; also the By-laws established for the regulation of 
the College, together with such matters connected with the said 
Acts, Resolutions and By-laws, as the committee may deem use- 
ful for purposes of reference or explanation," beg leave to pre- 
sent the following 

REPORT. 

Your Committee, soon after their appointment, addressed a 
circular to each of -the Trustees and each of the Faculty, re- 
questing their several views, and their assistance, in relation to 
the subject committed to their charge. They have also examin- 



South Carolina College. 

ed, collected and arranged in chronological order, all the Acts 
and clauses of Acts, and all the Legislative resolutions, and all 
the by-laws of the College, and all the alterations and amend- 
ments, and notices of proposed alterations and amendments, 
made and given since the last edition of the printed by-laws, in 
1836. They have also taken the pains to procure copies of the 
by-laws of the neighboring universities in Alabama, Georgia, 
Yirginia and Charleston, and of the Citadel Academy, together 
with much other information in relation to our College. And 
your committee have given to these matters considerable thought 
and attention, and now present, as ready for the press, the fol- 
lowing matters. 

I. All Acts and clauses of Acts in relation to the College, in 
order of date, with notes of repeal, alterations, &c. 

II. The Legislative Resolutions and extracts from journals, 
in order of date — the important resolutions and extracts in full, 
and references to others. 

III. The By-laws now of force, with some amendments, alte- 
rations and additions, (not very numerous, however,) and in 
form of a code more condensed and convenient for reference. 

IV. Some extracts and references to sources of information 
connected with the College. And 

V. A copious and minute index to the whole book, which will 
not (when printed) be much larger than the present printed 
book of laws. 

Hoping that their labors, although interrupted and somewhat 
procrastinated, will be satisfactory to the Board, and of some 
benefit to their Alma Mate?; 

They remain, 

Very respectfully, &c. 
E. BELLINGER, Jr. Chairman. 
Dec. 10, 1847. 



ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE, 



RELATIVE TO THE 



SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE. 



AN ACT to Establish a College at Columbia. A. A. 1801. 

5 Statutes, 403. 

3. Whereas, the proper education of youth contributes 
greatly to the prosperity of society, and ought always to p ream bi e 
be an object of legislative attention. And whereas, the es- 
tablishment of a College in a central part of the State, 

where all its youth may Be educated, will highly promote 
the instruction, the good order, and the harmony of the 
whole community : 

4. Be it therefore enacted by the Honorable the Senate 
and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in 
General Assembly \ and by the authority of the same, 
That his Excellency the Governor, his Honor the Lieu- 
tenant Governor, the Honorable the President of the Sen- T 

ate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the ^inted!^" 
Honorable the Associate Judges, and the Judges of the 
Court of Equity, shall be, ex-ofhcio, together with General 
Charles C. Pinckney, H. W. De Saussure, Thomas Taylor, 
the Rev. D. E. Dunlap, the Rev. John Brown, of Lancas- 
ter, Wade Hampton, John Chesnut, James B. Richardson, 
Dr. Isaac Alexander, Henry Dana Ward, the Rev. Samuel 
W. Yongue, William Falconer, and Bartlee Smyth, be 
Trustees, to continue in office for the term of four years 
from the passing of this Act: and at the expiration of the 
said four years, and every four years thereafter, the Legis- 
lature to nominate* thirteen Trustees,! to succeed the said 



* Elect by ballot. See Act of 1805, post. 

t The number of Trustees has been since increased. See Act of 1825, post. 



4 South 8ab.oi.ina College. 

thirteen persons above named, one body politic and cor- 

Tr/.s-es rorare. i:: oo e:::l ::; lav. ":;-.- :::: ::-:::: :i "The Trus- 
ineoiporatec : fS ___ -_ -^ g ______ -.._ _, ;----•-, ; ^ - - the 

name^tbey and the:: successors shall and may lave per- 
petually succession., and be able and capable in law 
have, receive and enjoy, to them and their success 
lands, tenements and hereditaments, of any kind or vali 
in fee. or for life : : y e a : s . and personal property oi any kind 
whatsoever: and alsc all sums :: money. :: any amount 
whatsoever, which may be granted or bequeathed to them. 
for the purpose of building, erecting, endowing" and sup- 
| :_:ing the said College in the town of Coluni" 

5. And be it ena Iht . .-' t That 

there shall be a stated meeting of the said Trustees on 

.Tr_.s-.ees the nrs: We anesaav ::: I' :-:e::: ::. ::: fa:!: rear. „::::.: :l:e 

"'----- :: ■■'■-'■ Session :■: ::-.e LegiV.a:v_re:* a:::: :"::?.: the President rfsaid 
College, and tour of the said Trustees, shall have full 
power : call occasional meetings :: the Board, when- 
ever it shall appear to them necessary: and :"__:: at 
all stated meetings, the Presides: :: the Board jf Trustees 
aforesaid, and ten :: the Trustees, shall be the number to 

v.;.-. number constitute a quorum, and to fill up. by ballot, any vacan- 
aq-:..:. ::es that may occur in the said Trustees, ex:::: those who 
Eire hereby declared to be Trustees ex-:~::: : and the 
President and six xfthe cither Trustees shall be the num- 
ber to cons:::::: :: : : sional meeting : and the said 

Theirpovers. T:::s:::^. or a quorum ::.:::. being regularly : :: enecL 
shall be capable of doing or transacting all the business 
an: xmcems rfthe said College; but more particularly 
: :ing all the customary and ne : essary ~i : ers of the 
said institution, :■: :x::: their sevei ! s. h ties, : removing 
any of the::: for neglect :: misconduct ::: :_rl:-:. )f pre- 
scribing the course :: studies :: be] ursued by the stu- 
dents : and. in general, of .training and enacting all such 
ordinan::- and by-laws as shall appear to themnecess 
for file gc :1 g venuuent of the said College : Provi 
the same be not repugnant to the laws of this State noj . _ 
the T Jnited v :::es. 

A it further ssotd_ 

That Ihe head of the said College shall be s: \ ed "The 
President, 73 :.: id the masters thereof shall be styled "The 

T _.e F :: ..:;• Professors :" but Professors, while they re::::::: such, shall 
never be capable of holding the office :: T:::s:re : and the 
P::s::lent and Professors, :: a majority of them, shall be 
styled "T::e Faculty :: flie College; 13 which Faculty 
shall have the pawe: of ::.::: sing the ordinances and by- 



* TLiie :-:r.:r-run§ altered See Ac: of 1*11 .' 



South Carolina College. 5 

laws adopted by the Trustees for the government of the stu- 
dents, by rewarding or censuring them ; and finally, by 
suspending such of them as, after repeated admonitions, 
^ shall continue disobedient or refractory, until a "determi- Their powers 
nat ion of a quorum of Trustees can be had ; but that it 
shall be only in the power of a quorum of Trustees, at 
their stated meeting, to expel any student of the said Col- 
lege. 

7. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. 
That the Trustees of the said College shall and may have 
a common seal for the business of themselves and their 
successors, with liberty to change or alter the same, General pow- 
from time to time, as they shall think proper ; and that, ers of Trus- 
by their aforesaid name, they and their successors shall tees - 
and may be able to implead and be impleaded, answer and 

be answered unto, defend and be defended, in all courts of 
law within this State ; and to grant, bargain, sell, or as- 
sign, any lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods or chat- 
tels ; and to act and do all things whatsoever, for the be- 
nefit of the said College, in as ample a manner as any 
person or body politic or corporate can or may by law. 

8. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 
That the Trustees of the said College are hereby authori- 
zed and empowered to draw out of the Treasury of this 

State the sum of fifty thousand dollars, to be appropriated Money ap- 
to the purpose of erecting a building of brick or stone, and Fopnated 
covered with tile or slate, suitable to the accommodation buildings. 6 
of the students of the said College, and suitable for fully 
carrying on the education of the said students, and for the 
erection of such other buildings as may be necessary for 
the use of said College •• and that the Comptroller be au- 
thorized and empowered, upon application. of the said 
Trustees, to pay over to said Trustees the sum of six thou- 
sand dollars yearly and every year, to be appropriated to 
the purpose of paying the salaries of the Faculty of the 
said College, and for the further support of the same ;* 
and that the Trustees of the said College shall be accoun- 
table for the proper appropriation of the said monies, to the 
Comptroller, who shall report thereon annually to the Le- 
gislature. 

9. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. 

That this Act shall be deemed a public Act, and, as such, This a public 
shall be judicially taken notice of, without special plead- Aet. 
ing, iri all the courts of Law and Equity within this 
State. 



* Since the reorganization of the College, the number of professors has 
been increased, and they are paid by mutual appropriations of the Legisla- 
ture. See A. A. 1846, page 354, Section 5. 



Land in Co- 
lumbia, con- 
veyed to 
Trustees. 



South Carolina College. 

10. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. 
That the said Trustees, with the concurrence of the Com- 
missioners of Columbia, shall be empowered to make choice 
of any square or squares, yet unsold, in the town of* Co- 
lumbia, for the purpose of erecting said college, and the 
buildings attached thereto, having strict reference to every 
advantage and convenience necessary for such institu- 
tion. 

In the Senate. House, the nineteenth day of December, in the year 
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and one, and in 
the tiuenty-sixth year of the Independence of the United 
States of America. 

JOHN WARD, President of the Senate. 
THEODORE GAILLARD, Speaker 

of the House of Representatives. 



A. A. 1802. 
5 Statutes, 
437. 



AN ACT authorizing the Commissioners for disposing 
of the Public Land in the Town of Columbia, to deliv- 
er up certain Bonds therein mentioned, a?id to convey 
certain Squares to the Trustees of the South Carolina 

College. 



Preamble. 



11. Whereas, the Board of Trustees of the College of South 
Carolina, in locating the spot which appeared to them the 
most proper for the site of the above mentioned College, 
have discovered that parts of the squares comprised there- 
in have been sold to private persons, who are willing to 
relinquish their purchases : 

12. Be it therefore enacted by the Honorable the Senate 
and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in 
General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, 
That upon the several persons hereinafter mentioned, who 
have purchased lots or squares in the town of Columbia, 
to be canceil- or their legal representatives, producing to the commis- 
ed - sioners for disposing of the public land in the town afore- 
said, certificates from the Board of Trustees of the Col- 
lege aforesaid, that they have executed to them full and 
sufficient conveyances, in fee simple, of the squares and 
lots hereinafter particularly described, the commissioners 
aforesaid are hereby authorized and directed to cancel the 
following bonds, to wit ; the bond of George Wade, for 
the purchase of two acres, making part of the square bound- 
ed by Richardson, Divine, Sumter and Greene streets ; 
also the bond of William Cunnington, for the purchase of 



Certain bonds 



South Carolina College. 

the square bounded by Sumter, Greene, Marion and Me- 
dium streets ; also the bond of Thomas Rhett Smith, for 
the purchase of the square bounded by Sumter, Blossom, 
Marion and Divine streets ; also the bond of Ezekiel Pick- 
ens, for the purchase of the square bounded by Marion, 
Divine, Bull and Greene streets ; and also the bond of Bart- 
lee Smyth, for the purchase of the square bounded by 
Marion, Greene, Bull and Medium streets. 

13. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 
That the Commissioners aforesaid shall be, and they are 
hereby, authorized and directed to convey to the Trustees 
aforesaid, in fee simple, the square bounded by Sumter, Di- 
vine, Marion and Greene streets, in the town aforesaid ; 
also the square bounded by Marion, Blossom, Bull and 
Divine streets ; and the half square, adjoining Wade's pur- 
chase, bounded by Richardson, Divine, Sumter and Greene 
streets, as aforesaid. 

14. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. 
That the Trustees aforesaid shall be, and they are hereby, 
authorized and empowered to stop up or inclose all or any 
part of Greene, Marion or Divine streets, which are includ- 
ed within and bounded by Bull, Blossom, Sumter and 
Medium streets. 

15. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 
That until the salaries of the Faculty of the said College 
shall commence, the Comptroller be authorized and em- 
powered, upon application of the said Trustees, to pay to 
them or their order, towards purchasing a philosophical 
and mathematical apparatus and library for the said 
College, the annual sum appropriated by law for such 
College. 

In the Senate House, the eighteenth day of December, in the 
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and two, and 
of the Independence of the United States of America, tloe 
twenty-seventh. 

JOHN WARD, President of the Senate. 
ROBERT STARK, Speaker of the 

House of Representatives. 



Lots convey- 
ed to Trus- 
tees, 



who may- 
enclose 
streets. 



Library and 
Philosopical 
Apparatus 
provided for. 



An ACT to aid the establishment of the South Carolina 
College, and to amend an Act entitled "An Act to estab- 



lish a College at Columbia." 



A. A. 1803. 

5 Statutes, 
4G4. 



16. Be it enacted by the Honorable the Senate and House 
oj Representative, noio met and silting in General Assem- 
bly, and by the authority of the same, That if at any sta- 



8 South Carolina College. 

ted or other meeting to be held by the Trustees of the 
When no quo- South Carolina College, any less number than a quorum, 
mswadjoum eSas esta blished by the said Act, shall attend, the members 
so attending shall have power to appoint a chairman, 
and to meet and adjourn from time to time, as the majori- 
ty shall think fit. 

17. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 
What number That if at any stated or other meeting of the said board, 

a quorum, the President shall not attend, it shall and may be lawful 
for the number of eleven at a stated meeting, or the num- 
ber of seven at an occasional meeting, to elect a president 
'pro tempore ; and the meeting so constituted shall be 
vested with all the powers which an occasional or 
stated meeting may respectively exercise ; any thing in 
the said Act to the contrary notwithstanding.* 

18. And ivhereas, sundry persons, proprietors of those 
two squares of land situate upon and circumscribed by 

Two squares Medium and Pendleton, Sumter and Bull streets, have 
oflandtobe signified their assent to relinquish to the said Trustees 
Trustees t0 tn eir right and interest in the said two squares, upon being 
compensated by an exchange of other lands, or otherwise: 
Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 
That the Commissioners of the town of Columbia shall 
convey and assure to the said Trustees, the said two 
squares of land, or so much thereof as the purchasers shall 
voluntarily relinquish ; and shall make such compensation 
who may t0 tne said purchasers, by exchange or otherwise, as 
enclose streets, shall be agreed upon by and between them and the said 
purchasers ; and that it shall be lawful for the said Trus- 
tees to enclose the said two squares, with the squares 
lying next to the southward thereof, in one enclosure, 
notwithstanding the intervening streets. 

In the Senate House, the seventeenth day of December, in the year 
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and three, and of 
the Independence of the United States of America, the twenty- 
eighth. 

JOHN GAILLARD, President of the Senate. 
ROBERT STARK, Speaker of the 

House of Representatives. 

* Altered by Act of 1825. See post. 



South Carolina College. 

An ACT to ratify and confirm the acts and proceedings a. A. 1805. 
of "persons he, 
of Columbia. 



II J±\y ± CO lUMjy UjIVUj VVKJVI UV IIIV LCOfrO UjIVUj JJI V^kujvivq* jx. JX. 1OU0 

of persons heretofore acting as Trustees of the College 5 Statutes, 



19. Whereas, it has been recently discovered, that there 

exists a variance between the enrolledAct, entitled, "An Act Preamble. 
to establish a College at Columbia," of record in the office 
of the Secretary of State, and the printed copy thereof, 
promulgated by authority of the State, for the information 
of the public, by reason whereof divers persons named in 
said printed copy, but who are not mentioned in the origi- 
nal Act, were required to act as Trustees of said College, 
and did accordingly interfere and act as such : 

20. Be it therefore enacted by the Honorable the Senate 

and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in Gene- ^™ e s r pr0 "_ 

rat Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That all fi rme d. 

and every act heretofore done, assented to or concurred in, 

by each and every person named as Trustees in the printed 

copy of the Act entitled "An Act to establish a College at 

Columbia," passed the nineteenth day of December, in the 

year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and one, 

from the promulgation thereof until the passing of this 

Act, which would have been legal and valid had the said 

persons been named or appointed Trustees in and by the 

enrolled Act aforesaid, shall be, and the same are hereby 

declared to be, ratified and confirmed, and held to be as 

firm and effectual in law, in as full and ample a manner 

as if their several and respective names had been inserted 

in said Act. 

21. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 

That the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, Associate 
for the time being, shall be, and they are hereby declared, x^, e s s te ™ s a e 
ex-omcio, to be, Trustees of the said College. 

22. And be it [further enacted by the authority aforesaid, -pi me of meet- 
That the stated meetings of the Trustees of the said col- ing changed, 
lege shall, and the same is hereby declared to be, changed 

from the first Wednesday in December, to the fourth 
Monday of November in each year. 

23. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, College may - 
That the said College shall have full and ample power confer degrees. 
to confer degrees on students or such other persons as may 

be deemed qualified to receive the same. 

24. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Trustees to be 
That such part of the said Act as directs a nomination . f elected byjoint 
Trustees by the Legislature, be, and the same is hereby, a ot ' 
repealed; and that incases in which heretofore the Le- 
gislature might have nominated Trustees, thai the same 

shall be elected by a joint ballot of both branches of the 



10 



South Carolina College. 



Legislature, and. that the peisons having the highest num- 
ber of votes on such ballot, shall be. and are hereby de- 
clared to be. Trustees of the said College. 

Lithe Senate House, the fourteenth day of December, in the year 
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five, and in the 
thirtieth year oft/ie Sovereignty and Independence of the Uni- 
ted States of America. 

ROBERT BARNWELL, President of the Senate. 
JOSEPH ALSTON, Speaker of the 

House of Representatives. 



A. A. 1811. 

5 Statutes, 

643. 



An ACT to 'make appropriation for the support of a Pro- 
fessor of Chemistry, in the South Carolina College. 



25. Whereas, the Trustees of the South Carolina College- 
have, by their memorial, represented to the Legislature 

Preamble. tnaT tne establishment of a Professorship of Chemistry in 
said College would be of great utility to the State, by wi- 
dening the circle of knowledge, and diffusing useful infor- 
mation throughout the same, and have solicited the Le- 
gislature in aid thereof: 

26. Be it enacted by the Honorable the Senate and House 
f- vv p°^lf™ of Representative, now met and sitting in General As- 
of Chemistry, sembly, and by the authority oj Ihe same. That hi addition 

to the sums already appropriated by law for the support of 
the faculty of the said College, the Comptroller be, and 
hereby is. authorized and empowered, upon application of 
the said Trustees, to pay over to them the sum of sixteen 
hundred dollars yearly, and every year, to be applied to 
the purpose of paying the salary of a Professor of 
Chemistry in the said College. 



In the Senate House, the twenty-first day of December, in the 
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and 
in the thirty-sixth year of the Independence of tlie United 
States of America. 

SAMUEL WARREN. President of the Seriate. 
JOHN GEDDES, Speaker of the 

House of Representatives. 



South Carolina College. 11 

An ACT to authorize the Commissioners of the Orphan A. A. 1811. 
House of Charleston, to select the number of youths ' 132 teS ' 
therein mentioned, from those educated and maintained 
on the bounty of that institution, who shall be allowed to 
complete their education at the South Carolina College. 

27. Whereas, from the number of Orphan Children, 

from every part of this State, educated and supported by Preamble, 
the munificence of the citizens of Charleston, in the Or- 
phan House of that city, an ample opportunity is offered 
of making a judicious selection of talents and genius ; in 
order, therefore, to further the patriotic and liberal views 
of the patrons of that institution : 

28. Be it enacted by the Honorable the Senate and House 

of Representatives, now met and sitting in General As- fr0 ^ Orphan. 
sembly, and by the authority of the same, That from and House to be 
immediately after the passing of this Act, the Commissioners educated at 
of the Orphan House, in the city of Charleston, shall be, ° e§e " 
and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to select, 
annually, one youth from the number educated and main- 
tained on the bounty of that institution, for the purpose of 
completing his education at the South Carolina College, gra- 
duate and receive the degrees conferred at the saidCollege. 

29. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 
That the Trustees, the President and Professors, shall be, 
and they are hereby, directed to receive, and cause to be 
educated, and allowed to graduate, at the South Carolina 
College, the boys to be selected as aforesaid, subject, 
nevertheless, to all the rules, orders and regulations of the 
said South Carolina College. 

30. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 
That all expense incident to the education and mainte- 

nance of the said boys, so to be selected, (clothing excep- howpafd. 68 ' 
ted,) shall be defrayed from the amount annually appro- 
priated by the Legislature to the South Carolina College.* 

31. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 
That as the youths so chosen shall graduate, or in case 

of the death, expulsion or removal of them, or any of In c c a a s n e C y * 
them, the commissioners aforesaid are hereby authorized 
and empowered to fill up any vacancy occasioned there- 
by. 

32. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 
That the sum of one hundred and forty dollars be, and 
is hereby, annually appropriated for the clothing of each 

of the said boys, while they remain at the said College : Approprh-tion 
Provided, nevertheless, That they shall not continue be- for clothin s 

* See A. A. 1841, post, allowing $400 00. 



12 South Carolina College. 

yond the term usually allowed to candidates for the first 
degree. 

33. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 
That all Acts and parts of Acts repugnant hereto, be, and 
the same are hereby, repealed. 

hi the Senate House, tlie twenty-first day of December, in tlie year 
of our Lord o?ie thousand eight hundred and eleven, and in the 
thirty-sixth year of tlie Independence of the United States of 
America. 

SAMUEL WARREN, President of the Senate. 
JOHN GEDDES, Speaker of the 

House of Representatives. 



An ACT to alter the time of the stated meeting of the 
A. A. 1811. Board, of Trustees of the South Carolina College, and 
5 s ^ tutes ' for other purposes therein mentioned. 

34. Be it enacted by the Honorable the Senate and 
House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General 

^n^of Tras-" Assembly, and by the ^authority of the same, That in fu- 
tees° changed, ture the stated meeting of the Board of Trustees of the 
South Carolina College shall be held and meet on the 
Wednesday next after the fourth Monday in November in 
each year, instead of the time heretofore established by law 
for the stated meeting of the said Board. 

35. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 
\ow n filled That no vacancy in the officers of the College shall be 

filled, unless at the stated meeting of the Board of Trus- 
tees : Provided, nevertheless, That such vacancy may be 
filled at any occasional meeting, until the stated meeting 
of the Board of Trustees, and no longer. 

36. And be it further enacted by tlie authority aforesaid, 
Suspension of That from and after the passing of this Act, the Faculty 

Students. s i ia j]_ l,^ aDC [ they are hereby, required to report the whole 
of their proceedings against any student who shall be sus- 
pended, together with the cause of such suspension, to the 
Board of Trustees, at their next stated meeting after such 
suspension ; and the said Board of Trustees are hereby 
authorized and empowered, upon a review of the sentence 
of any student, to restore such student to his standing in 



South Carolina College, 



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the College, if it shall appear to the said Board of Trustees 
proper to do so. 

In the Senate House, the twentieth day of December, in the year 
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and in tlw 
thirty-sixth year of the Independence of the United States of 
America. 

SAMUEL WARREN, President of the Senate. 
JOHN GEDDES, Speaker of the 

House of Representatives. 



An ACT to prohibit the Students of the South Carolina a. A. 1814. 
College from using the State House in Columbia, infu- 5 Statutes, 
ture, to hold their Commencement Ball in. 



724. 



37. Whereas, the State House, in the town of Colum- 
bia, is intended for State purposes only, and the Legisla- Preamble, 
ture has heretofore, on the application of the Students of 
the South Carolina College, permitted it to be used for 
their commencement ball ; and whereas, such use has 
been found incompatible with the safety of the house, and 
the records of the offices of Secretary of State, and Survey- 
or General, and the papers and funds of the Treasury, 
and of the Branch Bank of the State of South Carolina, 
deposited therein : 

Be it therefore enacted, by the Senate and House of 
Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met Com T^ ce ", 

•V . . -A, ti in i i' ^ merit ball not 

and sitting m General Assembly, and by the authority oi t0 be held in 
the same, That hereafter the Students of the South Caro- State House, 
lina College shall be, and they are hereby, forever prohib- 
itep from holding their commencement ball in the State 
House, in the town of Columbia, and from dancing therein. 

In the Senate House, the twenty-first day of December, in the year 
of our Lord one thoitsand eight hundred and fourteen, and in 
the thirty-ninth year of the Independence of the United States 
of America. 

JAMES R. PRINGLE, President of the Senate. 
THOMAS BENNETT, Speaker of the 

House of Representatives. 



14 



South Carolina College. 



A. A. 1819. From u An Act to make appropriations for the year of our 
6 Statutes, Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, and 
for other purposes therein mentioned" 



Insurance. 



Philosophical 
apparatus. 



38. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 
That the Comptroller General shall be, and he is hereby, 
authorized and required annually to insure against fire 
the College buildings at Columbia.* 

39. For the purchase of the chemical, philosophical and 
mineralogical apparatus of Mr. L'Herminier, for the use of 
the South Carolina College, one thousand dollars. 



A. A. 1825. 
6 Statutes, 
266. 

Who shall 

constitute the 

Board of 

Trustees. 



Quorum. 



An ACT to alter and amend an Act entitled " An Act 
to establish a College at Columbia" 

40. Be it enacted by the honorable the Senate and House 
of Representatives, now met and sitting in General As- 
sembly, and by the authority of the same, That from and 
after the passing of this Act, the Board of Trustees of the 
South Carolina College shall consist of the Governor and 
Lieutenant Governor of the State, the President of the 
Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the 
Judges of the Court of Appeals, the Circuit Judges of the 
Court of Law, and the Chancellors, ex officio, together 
with twenty other persons to be elected by joint ballot of 
the Senate and House of Representatives, to continue in 
office four years, and until others shall be elected. 

41. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 
That from and after the passing of this Act, nine members 
shall constitute a quorum of the Board of Trustees, suffi- 
cient for the transaction of any business relative to the 
said College — except it be the appointment of an officer in 

* Buildings no longer insured. 



South Carolina College. 



15 



the same, which shall be done only at the annual meeting, 
and when a majority of the said board are present. 

In the Senate House, the twentieth day of December, in the year 
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and tiventy-five, 
and in tlie fiftieth year of the Independence of the United 
States of America. 

JACOB BOND PON, President of the Senate. 
JOHN B. O'NEALL, Speaker of the 

House of .Representatives. 



Extract from an Act passed 17th December, 1831, entitled ^ &. 1831. 
" An Act to incorporate certain societies, and far other 8 Statutes, 
purposes." 373 - 

42. The Board of Trustees of the South Carolina Trustees may 
College are hereby invested with full power and au- compel attend- 
thority, in all investigations where they deem it necessa- an n e s ° S e Wlt ~ 
ry to the interest of the College, by subpoena, rule and at- 
tachment, to compel witnesses to appear and testify, and 
papers to be produced and read before the Board. 

43. The Board of Trustees are also invested with 
full power and authority, whenever they may deem M ^!g S ™ lss 
it essential to the interest of the College, to dismiss from 
office any officer of said institution. 



An ACT to vest certain squares and lots of woodland in a. a 1833. 
the town of Columbia, in the Trustees of the South 6 Statutes, 
Carolina College. 485> 



44. Whereas, it is deemed important to the health of 
the officers and students of the South Carolina College, 
that certain squares and lots of woodland in the town of 
Columbia, which belong to the State, and lie between the 
said College and the swamp of Rocky Branch, should re- 
main uncleared, and that the control of the same should 
be given to the Trustees of said College for that purpose. 

45. Be it therefore enacted by the honorable the Senate 
and House of Representatives, noto met and sitting in 
General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, 



Preamble. 



16 



South Carolina College. 



Trustees. 



That the following squares and lots of woodland, belong- 
Certain lots ing to the State, in the town of Columbia, to wit : lots 
vested in numbered on the town plat as 53 and 54, on Medium 
street, lots numbered as 43 and 44 on Greene . street, one 
square between Pickens, Bull, Greene and Divine streets, 
and one square between Bull, Pickens, Pendleton and 
Medium streets, be, and the same are hereby, granted to, 
and vested in, the Board of Trustees of the South Caro- 
lina College, for the purposes herein above mentioned. 
In the Senate House, the nineteeth day of December, in the year 

of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, and 
fifty-eighth year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the 
United States of America. 

H. DEAS, President of tlie Senate. 
PATRICK NOBLE, Speaker of 

the House of Representatives. 



An ACT concerning Vagrants* 

A. A. 1836. 46. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- 
6 S Su tes ' sentatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and 
K . ' by the authority of the same, That from and after the 
bawd^of ga- passing of this Act, if any person shall, within ten miles 
ming house, of the South Carolina College, keep any house as a baw- 
how punish- dy-house, or house of common prostitution, or shall reside 
in, or be an inmate of, such house, or shall be supported 
or gain a maintenance by common prostitution, or shall 
keep or use any house as a house for gaming, or shall aid 
or assist in keeping such house, or shall keep any faro- 
bank, or other device for gaming, every such person as 
aforesaid shall be proceeded against as a vagrant ; and 
upon conviction of any of the offences above enumerated, 
shall be deemed a vagrant, and either enter into recogni- • 
zance to the State in the sum of two thousand dollars, 
with two good and sufficient sureties (who shall be free- 
holders) in the sum of one thousand dollars each, to be 
taken and approved before the Clerk of the Court of Rich- 
land district, conditioned not to offend against the provi- 
sions of this Act for the space of three years, or in default 

* See 1 Ed. 6, ch. 3. As to who were Vagrants before the Constitution, 
see vol. 5, 41. 2 Brevard, 319. Grimke, P. Laws, 31. In the case of the 
State Ex Relatione Coleman vs. Maxcy & Arthur, Justices, the Court of 
Appeals, on the question being made, held this Act to be constitutional. See 
Record book, 1 vol. State Cases, 104, May, 1838, Columbia. 






South Carolina College. 



17 



may oe pros- 
ecuted. 



thereof shall be forthwith committed to the gaol of the 
district, to be dealt with as a vagrant. 

If any person, after having given bond as aforesaid, 
shall again, within the limits before prescribed, keep any For secon( j 
bawdy-house, house of common prostitution, or house for offence, 
gaming, either with cards or by any other game or device, 
such person shall be subject to indictment therefor, and on 
conviction, shall be fined for every day such offence is 
proved to have been committed, not exceeding one thous- 
and dollars, and be imprisoned not exceeding twelve 
months. 

That any justice of the peace or quorum is hereby au- 
thorized and required, upon the written requisition of the How offenders 
Faculty of the South Carolina College, through their pre- 
siding officer, or of the Solicitor of the Circuit wherein the 
same is situated, suggesting the name of any offender 
against the provisions of this Act, and any witnesses nec- 
essary to the investigation, forthwith to issue warrants to 
bring before him such offender and witnesses ; and if, 
upon investigation before such justice, sufficient evi- 
dence shall appear to satisfy him that further proceedings 
are warranted, a court shall be organized as in other cases 
for the trial of vagrants, before which such offender shall 
be tried and dealt with, as hereinbefore directed ; and it 
shall be the duty of every sheriff and constable to frhom 
any process for the enforcement of this Act may be di- 
rected, to execute the same with all practicable despatch 
according to its mandate ; and he shall, when required, re- 
turn on oath his proceedings thereon. 

That upon conviction in case of indictment for any of- 
fence specified in this Act, the tax costs of the Solicitor, 
recoverable from the defendant, shall be three hundred 
dollars, to be used by him as a fund for defraying the ex- 
penses incurred in enforcing the provisions of this Act. 



Tax costs. 



In the Senate House, the twenty-Jlrst day of December, in the 
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, 
and in the sixty-first year of the Sovereignty and Independence 
of the United States of America. 

PATRICK NOBLE, President of the Senate 
D. L. WARDLAW, Speaker of the 

House of Representatives, 



13 South Carolina College. 

From " An Act to reduce all Acts and clauses of Acts in 
relation to the Militia of this State, to one Act, and to 
alter and amend the same? 

47. Sec. CXXXV. The following persons shall be ex- 
11 Statutes' em P te d from ordinary militia duty, but shall be liable to 
203. perform duty in times of alarm, insurrection, invasion, (or 
as one of the posse comitatus, when required,) and shall 
not be exempted from draft for actual service ; but no per- 
son under the age of eighteen, or above the age of forty- 
five years, shall be liable to draft, for any service beyond 
the limits of their respective brigades, to wit : The Mem- 
bers of both branches of the General Assembly, and their 
respective officers, for fifteen days before the sitting, during 
the session, and fifteen days after the adjournment there- 
of ; all regularly officiating Clergymen ; all regular licens- 
ed practising Physicians ; the Faculty and Officers in the 
South Carolina College ; Professors in Theological Schools ; 
School masters having under their tuition not less than 
fifteen scholars ; and all students at schools, academies 
an d colleges. 



BY-LAWS. 



CHAPTER I 

Of the Board of Trustees and their Secretary. 

48. The Governor, for the time being, shall be Presi- w , p . 
dent of the Board of Trustees ; in his absence, the Lieu- dent of Board 
tenant Governor. In their absence, the President of the of Trustees. 
Senate shall preside ; and in the absence of all these, the 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. If all these 

are absent, a President pro tern, shall be appointed. 

49. The Chair shall be addressed by the members 
standing and uncovered, and all motions, propositions and 
resolutions shall be submitted in writing, if any member 
shall require it. 

50. In addition to the annual meeting prescribed by law, 

the Board shall have one other regular meeting, which Regular meet- 
shall be holden on the Wednesday after the first Monday m S s - 
in May, in every year ; and the President of the Board, 
with the advice and consent of any five members, may Spec^meet- 
call a special meeting at any other time, when, in their 
opinion, the affairs of the College shall require it. 

51. There shall be a Secretaiy of the Board of Trus- 
tees, who shall be elected by ballot, and shall hold his 

office during the pleasure of the Board, and no longer. Secretar y> 
Before entering on the duties of the office, he shall give . . , . 
bond and security for their faithful discharge, in the pen- 
alty of five hundred dollars ; and as a compensation for 
his services, shall receive a salary of two hundred and 
fifty dollars, to be paid quarterly, in advance. 

52. He shall keep a minute of all the proceedings of the 
Board, which he shall transcribe in a fair hand into well 
bound books, to be by him provided for that purpose, 
wherein also he shall record all communications from the 
President or any Professor relative to the general state of 



20 



South Carolina College. 



the College, or on subjects connected with its government, 
to which shall be annexed a general index of the contents. 
53. He shall carefully nldjmd preserve all original com- 
munications to the Board, to whatever subject they may 
relate, or from whomsoever they may have been received, 
and at every meeting of the Board he shall read over the 
journals of the meeting next preceding. 



CHAPTER II. 



Officers. 



Of the Officers of the College. 

54. The officers of the College shall consist of a Pres- 
ident, as provided for by law, and such Professors and 
other officers as the Board of Trustees shall think proper 
to appoint. 

The following Professorships are established in the Col- 
lege: 



Professorships q 

a 

4. 

5. 

6. 

7. 



Duties, how 
assigned. 



Chaplain. 



Officers elect- 
ed by ballot. 

Tenure of 
office: 



Of Belles Lettres and Elocution. 

" History j Political Philosophy and Economy. 

" Chemistry. Mineralogy and Geology. 

" Moral Philosophy. Sacred Uderature and Evi- 
dences of Christianity. 

" Logic, Rhetoric. Mental Philosophy and Physi- 
ology. 

" Greek Literature. 

" Roman Literature. 
8. " Mathematics. Mechanical Philosophy, Astronomy, 
and Civil Engineering. 

55. Of these, the President shall perform the duties of 
one, and the Board may, hi its discretion, assign a part of 
the duties of any one or more of these professorships to 
another or other members of the Faculty, so as to equalize 
their labors as nearly as maybe. 

56. The Professor of Moral Philosophy, Sacred Litera- 
ture and Evidences of Christianity shall officiate as Chap- 
lam of the College. 

57. All officers shall be elected by ballot, and a majority 
of the votes of the Trustees present shall be necessary to 
make an election. 

58. The President, Professors and other officers, whose 
term of office is not herein expressly limited, shall hold 
then offices during the pleasure of the Board, and no longer, 






South Carolina College. 21 

59. Without the consent of the Board, no officer shall 
resign his office without having given one year's previous 
notice of his intention to resign. 

60. The President, Professors and Tutors shall have officers where 
apartments assigned them in the College buildings, and to reside, 
shall reside permanently therein, unless permitted by the 

Board to reside elsewhere in the town of Columbia or its 
vicinity ; and the said President, Professors, Tutors and 
all other officers who may reside in the College buildings, 
shall, at their own expense, make all the ordinary repairs, 
and at the proper time, which may be necessary to the 
buildings which they occupy, and to all out houses and 
fences appurtenant thereto. 

61. Neither the President nor any other member of the To pursue no 
Faculty shall, during the Session of the College, pursue, other profes- 
for reward, any other profession, but they shall devote- S10n - 
themselves exclusively to the duties of their offices. 

62. Every Professor hereafter to be elected shall, at a 

time to be prescribed by the Board, deliver a public ad- Todeliver ad- 
dress on some subject connected with his professorship. 

63. In all cases where, according to the provisions con- 
tained in this code, an officer is bound to give bond and 
security for the faithful discharge of the duties of his of- Their bonds - 
nee, the bond shall be made payable to the Trustees of 

the South Carolina College, and a condition shall be an- 
nexed, that the said bond shall be valid and binding on 
the said officer and his sureties for the whole time which 
he shall remain in the said office, although it may exceed 
the term for which he was elected, whether he holds over 
in virtue of a new election or on account of the omission 
of the Board to elect another, or from any other cause. 

64. If the sureties to the bond of any officer shall die 

or remove without the State, or if the Board shall have When insuffi- 
reason to believe that they have become insolvent, or shall, cient * 
for other cause, become dissatisfied with such security, the 
said officer shall, on notice, be removed from office, unless 
he give other sufficient security, to be approved of by a 
committee of the Board. 

65. The officers of the College are particularly charged 
with enforcing amongst the students the observance of 
every moral and religious duty. 



22 South Carolina College. 

CHAPTER III. 

Of the Admission of Students. 

66. The Faculty shall examine all applicants for ad- 
Applicants to mission, and judge of their qualifications : nor shaU any 
be examined. } De admitted without being well acquainted with the pre- 
paratory studies necessary for admission into the class to 
which the}' aspire. 

67. No student shall he admitted into the Freshman 
Age. Class until he is fourteen, nor into an)' other class until 

he is fifteen, years of age. 

68. No student shall be permitted to enter College with- 
To pay quar- out having deposited with the Treasurer the amount of 

terly in ad- one quarter's board in commons, or at least an amount 
vance. sufficient to pay his board to the end of the quarter in 
which he ma}* enter, one-half of the amount of the tui- 
tion fee for the term, and whatever simi may be assessed 
for fuel. 

69. At the commencement of the second quarter, he 
shall deposite with the Treasurer the amount of one quar- 
ter's board in commons, and at the commencement of the 
third quarter he shall deposite. in like maimer, the amount 
of one quarter's board, and the remaining half of the 
tuition fee. 

70. No student shall be permitted to recite or attend 
any lee true until he shall have produced to the Professor 
a receipt from the Treasurer, for all sums required to be 
deposited, according to the laws of the College, either on 
his admission or the commencement of any quarter. 

71. On the admission of any student he shall be fur- 
To be furnish- nished with a copy of the laws of the College, on which 
ed „T 1 1 th „ copy shall be endorsed by the President, a memorandum of the 

following tenor : 

A. B. is admitted into the Class of this Col- 

* e °:e. on the dav of A. D. 

C. D. President. 



of laws. 



CHAPTER IT. 

Of the Classes. Course of Studies and Instruction. 

72. There shah be established hi the College four 
Classes, classes of students, which shall, hi their succession, bear 
the usual names of, Freshman. Sophomore. Junior and 
Senior. 



South Carolina College. 23 

73. The qualifications for admission into the several 
classes, and the course cf studies and instruction, shall be Qualifications, 
such as the board shall, from time to time, prescribe and 
direct. 



CHAPTER Y. 

Of Examinations, Exercises and Public Exhibitions. 

74. There shall be two public examinations of the 

Senior Class in each year, one within ten days preceding Examinations. 

the first of July, and another commencing three weeks 

before the Commencement ; and also two examinations 

of all the other classes, the first immediately following 

the examination of the Senior Class in June, and the 

second beginning one week before Commencement. 

75. All recitations shall be at the regular hours pre- 
scribed. Recitations. 

76. Once in each month, at least, and oftener if the 
Faculty shall deem it necessary, the Freshman and 
Sophomore Classes shall be exercised in delivering select 
pieces of English composition or recitations from approved 
authors. 

77. There shall be two exhibitions of the Senior Class 
in each year, one at the commencement, and the other at 
such time as the Faculty shall appoint, in which shall be 
delivered at least one Latin oration ; and there shall also 
be such other exhibitions of all classes as the Faculty 
shall direct ; and no student shall be at liberty to decline 
to perform the exercises assigned him by the Faculty. 

78. The Faculty shall furnish Diplomas for the use of Diplomas, 
the graduating class. 



Exhibitions. 



CHAPTER VI. 

Of the Faculty and Government. 

79. The President shall be the chief executive officer 
of the College, and, as such, charged with superintending Duties ofpre- 
the execution of all laws made lor its government When sident. 
present, he shall preside at all meetings of the Faculty, 



24 South Carolina College. 

open the business of the meeting, and require the opinion 
of each member on the subject brought before them, and 
give his own opinion last. 

80. If in any case the Faculty, including himself, shall 
In case of ab- be equally divided, he shall, notwithstanding, have the 

sence. casting voice. It shall be his duty to deliver the result of 
their opinions and pronounce all sentences and censures 
against the students. 

81. In the absence, sickness or death of the President 
of the College, the Professors shall from amongst them- 
selves appoint one to discharge the executive duties of 
his office until the next meeting of the Board, unless, in 
case of sickness or absence, the President shall sooner re- 
turn to his duties. 

82. The Faculty shall have a stated weekly meeting 
Faculty to to review the events of the preceding week, and on any 

Softener Y su dden emergency the President, or any other member of 
the Faculty, may call a meeting at any other time. 

83. At the request of the Faculty all other officers 
May call in shall be bound to attend their meetings, to aid them with 

other officers, their advice if required, or to execute such orders as they 
may give consistently with the laws of the College. 

84. No question whatever, connected with the govern- 
Proceedings of ment or discipline of the College, shall be debated by the 
Faculty secret. p acu ity i n the presence of any student ; nor the individual 

opinion of any member of the Faculty, or the result of 
their deliberations, be made known without the order of 
the Faculty. 

85. The Faculty shall assign to the Tutors, if any shall 
Tutors, hereafter be appointed, rooms in such situations as will best 

enable them to assist in the government of the College, 
and it shall be their especial duty to keep peace and' order, 
and to prevent and suppress all riotous and disorderly 
conduct, and to report to the Faculty any improper con- 
duct on the part of the students that may fall under their 
observation. 

86. In case of riot or other disturbance, all the officers 
Riot. of the College shall instantly repair to the spot, sup- 
press the irregularity, and order the students to. their 
rooms. 

87. The Faculty shall take care that devotional exer- 
Devotional cises shall be performed in the College chapel every morn- 
exercises. j n g anc [ evening, at which the students shall be bound to 

attend, under pain of censure and suspension for habitual 
neglect. 

88. The Faculty shall assign to each of the Professors 
Professors to and Tutors a portion of the tenements occupied by the 

visit tene- students, and each shall visit the portion so assigned him 

merits. ' r ° 



South Carolina College. 25 

at least once in each day or night, and oftener if the Fa- 
culty shall deem it necessary, and report to the Faculty, 
at their weekly meeting, the condition of the rooms, en- 
tries and staircases, noting particularly any want of clean- 
liness. 

89. The Faculty shall keep a book strongly bound, in R o> . 
which each student admitted into the College shall regis- b 
ter his name, date of admission, residence, and the Post 
Office of his parent or guardian. In this book shall also 

be entered the time of dismission or graduation, and the 
degree to which they are admitted ; to which shall be an- 
nexed an alphabetical index. 

90. The Faculty are hereby authorized to appoint, from 
amongst themselves, or otherwise, if they shall deem it Secretary of 
necessary, a Secretary, whose duty it shall be to enter, in a th ^ Faculty, 
book to be provided for that purpose, a journal of all the 
transactions of the Faculty, which shall be laid before the 

Board of Trustees at their annual meeting, and be at ail 
times subject to the inspection of any member of the Board. 

91. When any officer charged with the visitation of the 
rooms shall desire admittance into any room in which., . 
there may be a student or students, he shall signify the rooms: 
same by rapping at the door, and if admittance is then 
denied him, or the door is not opened, he shall be autho- 
rized to break the door and charge the repairs to the stu- 
dents found within. 

92. At every half yearly meeting of the Board of Trus- 
tees, the President of the College shall, and he is hereby ^^^ 
required to, report to the Board of Trustees the course Of p r tees/" 
studies which have been pursued by the several classes, 

under what Professors or Tutors they have studied, 
what text or other books have been used, and the manner 
in which each officer shall have discharged his duties. 

93. On the admission of any student, the Secretary of c - , , 
the Faculty shall transmit to the parent, guardian or sent to parents, 
other person having the superintendance of his education, on admission 
a circular according to a formula to be prescribed by the of student . 
Faculty, in which shall be stated the qualifications for the 
admission of students, in all of the classes, the course of 

studies, with the names of the Professors and the subjects 
on which they severally instruct ; the regulations made 
with regard to the expenses of the students, and the 
time when deposites are required to be made. 

94. The Secretary of the Faculty shall also, on the first , 
day of every month, transmit to the parent or guardian of rnonthfy, 
each student of the College, an account, according to a 
formula to be prescribed by the Faculty, of all deiinquen- 

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26 South Carolina College. 

cies of their child or ward in attending recitations, prayers 
or public worship , or any other violation of the laws ; 
and if any student shall be suspended by the Faculty, 
the said Secretary shall forthwith transmit notice thereof 
to his parent or guardian, in which the cause of suspen- 
sion shall be expressed. 

95. As a compensation for his services, the Secretary 
Salary of Sec. of the Faculty shall receive an annual salary of two hun- 

of Faculty. dred dollars. * 

96. An Executive Committee of five, of whom the Pre- 

Executive s j dent f the College shall be one. and. ex officio, chair- 
Committee. ni1n » n ' _ ' JJ » _ 

man, shall be appointed to serve for lour years, and they 

shall meet in the College Library on the first Saturday in 
each month, and oftener at the call of the Chairman. To 
them shall be submitted all proposed expenditures from 
the College Treasury, and no money shall be drawn from 
the same unless authorized by their draft signed by their 
chairman. They shall audit, once a month, the Treasu- 
rers accounts, and report upon the same semi-annually. 
They shall attend the examinations of the College, and 
shall also act as Library Committee. 



CHAPTER V1L 

Of Discipline. 

97. At the commencement of every quarter, the Faculty 
Monitor, his shall appoint a Monitor for each class, whom they may 
duty, &c. remove and substitute another in his place at pleasure. 
The Monitor shall keep exact accounts of all absences 
from and tardiness at prayers, recitations, lectures and 
public worship. And the bills of the Monitor shall be 
presented, on every Monday morning, to the Faculty, who 
shall examine them, and call the delinquents to account. 
If any student shall be frequently noted on the monitor's 
bills, and shall not give satisfactory reasons for his defal- 
cations, he shall be admonished, and if he does not re- 
form his conduct, he shall be suspended and reported for 
expulsion. The Faculty shall cause the Monitors bills 
to be transcribed into a book to be kept for that purpose, 
which shall always be subject to the inspection of any 
member of the Board of Trustees, or of the parents or 
guardians of any student. 






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98. During the session of the College, the students shall 
convene in the College chapel at sunrise in the morning Times of stu- 
to attend prayers ; from thence they shall retire either to Q y- 
attend recitations or lectures, or to pursue their studies, 

until they are summoned to breakfast ; at 9 o'clock, A. M. 
they shall return to their studies, and continue in their 
rooms until twelve, unless summoned to recitations or 
lectures ; between twelve and two they shall repair to 
dinner when summoned, and at two return to their rooms 
and continue at study until five ; and at five they shall 
attend prayers at the chapel, and be dismissed. From 
the beginning of the session until the first of May in each 
year, the students shall all return to their rooms at the 
ringing of the bell at seven o'clock in the evening, and 
continue at study until half past nine, and remain in their 
rooms during the remainder of the night. From the first 
of May until the end of the session, the students shall be 
dismissed from evening prayers until nine oclock at night, 
at which time they shall return to their rooms and remain 
in for the night. On Saturdays, they shall be dismissed 
after morning recitations, until nine o'clock at night. 

99. The strictest attention to study and all other duties punishment 
is required of every student. If, therefore, any one shall for neglect of 
absent himself from exercises of any kind, and fail to study, 
render satisfactory excuse for such absence, he shall be 
admonished ; and any student who shall habitually neg- 
lect his studies or other duties, may be admonished or 
suspended, and reported for expulsion, at the discretion of 

the Faculty. 

100. Students are strictly forbidden to visit Taverns, Students not 
Hotels, or places of public amusement, without special tovlslttaverns > 
permission first obtained from the President. 

101. Students are strictly forbidden to visit Eating- Nor eating 
Houses, or Grog Shops, on pain of suspension or expul- houses, 
sion, as the nature of the case may require. 

102. Students are strictly forbidden to smoke in any of Nor to smoke 
the public rooms or halls of the College, in the Campus, in public 
or in the streets of Columbia. 

103. Students are not only required to abstain from all Th . , 
vicious, immoral or irregular conduct, but they are, on tobegemle- 
every occasion, to conduct themselves with propriety and manly, 
decorum, and in all their intercourse with the officers of 

the College, with each other, and the public generally, it 
is expected of them to preserve that high toned feeling 
and courtesy which ever distinguish the gentleman. 

104. Every student on entering the chapel, a lecture 
room, or the dining rooms, shall be uncovered, and remain 
so as long as he continues there. 



28 South Carolina College. 

105. No class or other meetings of the students shall he 
Meetings hot held without the special permission of the President, and 

to be held f or suc j 1 purposes as shall be specified. All such meet- 
wi out earc. ^^ j^i^ without licence, shall be considered as unlawful 
combinations, and punished accordingly. 

106. No undergraduate shall attend the instruction 
Students not to a ny person who may undertake to teach any language. 

teachers. art or sc 'i ence - without permission from the Faculty. 

107. If any student shall be dene lent in cleanliness in 
Cleanliness. ^ ns apartment, the Faculty may order all necessary clean- 
ing to be done at the expense :: the student. 

108. The students are required, implicitly, to obey all 
Demeanor of T ^ e l aTrtlu! commands oi their instructors, and to demean 

students, themselves towards them with deference and respect. 
They shall observe nearness and cleanliness in their per- 
sons and dress, and be courteous in their conduct towards 
each other. No student shall presume to some into the 
chapel, or an}" apartment for recitation, without being 
folly dressed, nor shall they loung ye : - sit in an indecorous 
position, nor talk, nor in any manner offend against the 
inles of propriety common among gentlemen assembled 
for grave purpose-. 

109. The students are required to take their seats in 
To be seated the chapel and other public rooms, and to go from them 

in chapeL &c ^ suc } 1 or( j er as foe Faculty shall direct. 

110. The sftidents are strictly forbidden to make use :: 
tobacco in any of the public rooms, or any of the rooms in 

Tobacco. w } 1 j c i 1 x \ le y are convened for recitation or lectures, or to 
soil or deface them by any other means. 

111. The students shall particularly observe the hours 
To observe of study and retirement, during which they shall not 

hours c:s:.iv leave then rooms under any pretence, unless to obey the 
officers or from necessity. 

11*2. All the students are required to make themselves 
To know the thoroughly acquainted with the laws of the College, as 
lavs. ignorance of them will not be admitted as an excuse for 
their transgression. 

113. Every student shall provide himself with such 
Tex- books, text books as the Faculty shall, from time to time. 

prescribe. 

114. "When there is public worship at the College 
Worship in cna P e l on Sunday, every student shall attend the same. 

chapel. and deport himself with becoming solemnity : unless he 
be excused upon some one of the following grounds. — 
1st. That he is a communicant with some religious de- 
nomination having regular worship in the town of Colum- 
bia, and differing from that to which the Chaplain belongs, 
of which written notice shall be given to the President. 






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2d. That the parent or guardian of the student shall 
inform the President, in writing, that he cannot, in con- 
science, consent that his son or ward should engage in 
the religious worship conducted by the Chaplain. 

115. The Faculty shall cause prayers to be said in the 
College Chapel on Sunday morning, (as well as morning 
and evening during the week) and the students shall 
attend at such hours of prayer as the Faculty may 
appoint. 



Prayers. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

Of Sessions and Vacations. 

116. The session of the College shall commence on 

the first Monday in October in every year, at which time Sessions. 
all the students shall attend, and shall terminate on the 
first day of July in every year, and there shall be a vaca- 
tion from thence until the first Monday of October ensu- 
ing, so that there be only one vacation in the year. 

117. The session shall be divided into three quarters — 
the first to commence on the first Monday of October — 
the second, on the first day of Januaiy — and the third, 
on the first day of April, in every year. 

118. The students shall have three days holyday at Holidays. 
Christmas, and no more. 



CHAPTER IX. 



Of the Commencement and Degrees. 

119. The Commencement shall be held on the first 
Monday of December, in every year. 

120. Immediately after the examination of the Senior 
Class in November of every year, the Faculty shall con- 
fer the honors, and recommend for degrees. In conferring 
the honors, the Faculty shall, have regard to the orderly 
deportment of the students, and their diligence and profi- 
ciency in their studies. 

121. The degrees shall be publicly conferred by the 
President of the College, at the Commencement, in the 
usual form. 



Commence- 
ment. 



30 South Carolina College. 

122. The first honor at each commencement shall he 
Honors, given to the student appointed to deliver the salutatory 

addresses, which shall be in Latin or Greek, and the sec- 
ond honor to the student appointed to deliver the valedic- 
tory addresses. 

123. No student shall be admitted to a degree, or to a 
Students not higher class, who shall have omitted the opportunity of 

allowed to being publicly examined, at the times required by the laws 
graduate un- f t i College, unless prevented by inevitable necessity, of 

less examined. , . ; , J<? ' , , *\, . , l~ , JJ j. 

wnich the Faculty shall judge. If the parent or guardi- 
an shall, without communicating such necessity to the 
Faculty, order or direct any student to leave the College 
before the period prescribed by law, it shall be on the peril 
of the student's losing his standing in the class. 

124. All the exercises to be performed by the Seniors 
Exercises, shall be prepared by them at least six days before the 

Commencement, and be submitted to the President for his 
approbation : and if any one shall neglect or refuse to 
perform the part assigned him, his degree shall not be 
conferred, and he shall forfeit the honor, if one has been 
awarded to him. 

125. If any candidate for a degree shall exhibit any 
thing on the stage which has not been previously ap- 
proved by the President, he shall not be admitted to his 
degree. 

126. All candidates for the first degree shall, at least 
Defaulters not f° ur days before the Commencement, produce to the Pres- 
to graduate, ident the certificate of the Treasurer, that all the College 

charges against him are paid : and if he fail to do so, the 
- degree shall not be conferred, unless he shall give satis- 
factory reasons for his defalcation. 

127. Every Bachebr, in the third year after his degree, 
Qualification ^ ne snau have sustained a fan character, and shall per- 
for degree of form such exercises as may be assigned him, shall be enti- 

A. M. tied to the degree of Master of Arts. 

128. In like manner, any Bachelor who shall have re- 
sided in the College one session after the degree conferred, 
and shall have pursued a course of study therein under 
the direction of the President, and shall have sustained a 
fair character, and performed such exercises as the Facul- 
ty have assigned him, shall be admitted to the degree of 
Master of Arts. 

129. No honorary degree shall be conferred without 
Honorary de- four months previous notice to the Board of Trustees, of 

£ rees - the intention to apply for such degree, unless it is recom- 
mended by the Faculty. 









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CHAPTER X, 

Of the College Fees. 

130. The fee for tuition and the use of the library, shall Fee. 
be fifty dollars for the session. 

131. At the end of every session, the Treasurer shall Treasurer t0 
make a final settlement with each student, and pay him re f U nd. 
the balance, if any, that may remain to his credit,«on 
whatever account the same may have been deposited, and 

shall take his receipt for the same. 



CHAPTER XL 

Of the Students' Apartments. 

132. Immediately after the commencement of the ses- Rooms t0 be 
sion in every year, the Faculty shall assign rooms in the assigned, 
College buildings to each of the students, and no student 

shall be removed from the room assigned him for the ses- 
sion, except at his own request, or for disorderly conduct. 

133. Every student is forbidden to remove from the A , . . . 

•', , . , . , . And not to be 

room assigned him, or to occupy any other, without the changed. 

consent of the Faculty ; and he shall be responsible for 

all damage done to his room during his residence therein, 

unless he shall make it appear to the Faculty that it was 

without fault or neglect on his part. 

134. If any student or students shall be convicted be- p . , 
fore the Faculty of having wilfully mutilated, injured or juJing rooms' 
destroyed their own rooms, or any of the College buildings, &c 
or the fences, out-buildings or fixtures within the wall en- 
closing the College buildings, whether the same were de- 
signed for use or ornament, the expenses of repairs shall 
be charged to such student, or if more than one, an equal 
portion ; and an account thereof shall be transmitted by 
the Secretary of the Faculty to the parents or guardians 
of such student or students, and if the amount thereof 



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32 South Carolina College. 

shall not be paid on or before the first day of the quarter 
next ensuing, such student shall be suspended until the 
-lie be paid, and shall also be subjected to such Col- 
lege punishment as the Faculty niay inflict. 

135. No student shall make any alteration in his room 
or fire-place, without the consent and authority of the 
Faculty. 
R ^., _ 136. The Faculty may. in their discretion, assign rooms 

drates. a i 11 tne College buildings to graduates who may wish to 
reside there for the purpose of pursuing a course of studies, 
such graduates combrming to the general rules and regu- 
lations of the College, and paving ten dollars for the use 
of the library, 
p- 137. All students are particularly enjoined to be careful 

about fire, especially when they are obliged to leave their 
rooms, or to carry it through the entries, or up the stair- 
cases, and shall be liable for all injuries done to their 
rooms by negligence. 



CHAPTER XII. 

Of the College Treasurer. 

^ 13S. There shall be a College Treasurer, who shall be 

u r ' elected annually, and shall receive an annual salary of 
five hundred dollars, to be paid quarterly. 

139. Before entering on the duties of his office, he shall 
To give on gfr e ^^ an( j security to be approved by a committee of 

the Board, in the penal sum of five thousand dollars, for 
the faithful discharge of "the duties of his office. 

140. He shall receive all monies which the students are, 
His duties, D y ^ j aws Q £ t i ie c n e ge ; required to deposite in his 

hands. 

141. He shall keep an account of the fimds arising from 
tuition fees, and shall not disburse any part thereof with- 
out the order of the Board. 

142. At the annual meeting of the Board, in December, 
he shall submit to the Board a minute statement of his 
accoimts with the College, and his vouchers for all sums 
disbursed. 

143. Where salaries are provided for in these laws, the 



South Carolina College. 33 

Treasurer shall pay them, at the time prescribed, out of 
the tuition fund, unless some other fund shall be provided. 



Librarian. 



CHAPTER XIII. 

Of the Library and Librarian. 

144. A Librarian shall be appointed, whose duty it shall 
be to attend every day (Sundays excepted) from eight 
o'clock, A. M. until one o'clock, P. M. 

145. He shall give a bond, with sufficient security, to 

be approved by a committee of the Board, or such other To ^ ve bond# 
person as the Board shall appoint, in the penal sum of five 
thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance 
of his duties. 

146. It shall be the duty of the Librarian to keep the 
Library neat and clean, and to see that all books taken His duty. 
from the Library are returned at least three days before 

the vacation and before the commencement. 

147. No books shall be taken from the Library except 

by the following persons, without special permission from Re , ti 
the Trustees, viz : the Trustees of the College : all such to use of Li- 
persons as have made a donation of the value of one hun- brary. 
dred dollars to the Library : the officers of instruction ; 
resident graduates, and all the students ; and no gradu- 
ates shall be considered as resident graduates, and as such 
entitled to the use of the Library, unless they reside within 
the College walls. 

148. The President, Professors and Tutors, are entitled 
to the use of the Library at any hour. They shall, how- 
ever, keep a book, in which the names of the works taken 
from the Library shall be regularly recorded. They shall 
also subject themselves to a fine of one dollar for any neg- 
lect of this rule, to be paid to the Librarian. 

149. No other persons entitled to the use of the Library, 
except the members of the Faculty and the Tutors afore- 
said, shall be allowed to draw books from the same except 
in the presence of the Librarian, or of some member of 
the Faculty, who shall take a note of the same before the 
book passes from the Library. 

150. Every graduate, before his diploma shall have 
been signed by the Faculty, shall produce a certificate 
from the Librarian, that all books borrowed by him from 
the Library have been duly returned. 

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South Carolina College, 



151. Each student is entitled t : : ": : :■ in from the Library-. 
Regulations as at one time, one quartc :r. as equivalent twc octavos, h 

Ex: such as are pre rrrg compo- 



:: : s - : L - three :r nriec rnr :s~ 



::--.' 



Books rec- 

:■:■ ":e r-jir- 

: „r.it i 



:: as for the pubhc exhibitions, who may "be allowed 
greater number, on apphcation to the Faculty. 

152. No periodical, recently received, shall be retained 
by any person Longei than three days. 

153. If any book taken from the Library be lost :r dam- 
aged, the delinquent shall replace it by a new Mjpy ■::' 
equal value, within three months. E it be no: repk sed 
within that time, the Librarian shall make out an account 
against the said delinquent of double the price of th 
book jr set if it belongs to »ne ; which account shall be 
charged in his next bill of tuition, and the money shall be 

lied to the use of the Library. 
154 No student shall be alio wed without special lib- 
erty from the President :: the College, : keep any book 
longer than a fortnight. Students who may neglect to 
return books at the tune appointed by law, shall be liable 
to have then privilege of the use :: the Library suspended, 
at the liscretioD :: 'the Librarian. 

155. No student shall lend to any other person, except 
another student, or suffer to be carried from his room any 
book belonging to the Library, on pain of a severe repri- 
mand from the Librarian: and if the offence be repeated, 
such student shall be denied access t: the Library. 

156. The students ere all require:., tc jbserve the strict- 
est lecorum while receiving books from the Librarian, 
Any student who shaU violate this law shall he punisha- 
ble at the discretion of rhe Faculty. 

157. >":• person sire_i :e : : :::ry rny be- 
longing to the Library out of the town of Columbia and 
in "riemity. 

158. The Librarian is strictly enjoined never to carry, 
or suffer to be carried, into the Library. : lighted lamp or 
candle, except in cases of ire: issity 

159. The cere of enforcing these inns devolves upon 
the Faculty, even in the :ase :: Trustees. 

160. Tire Librarian shah have the discretion of with- 
holding from circulation books precious from then rarity, 
or of which the character fits them for consultation rather 
than reading. 

161. Tire" Librarian shall keep a blank book properly 
ruled, in which every person entitled to the use of the 
books of the College Library, end all literary visiters, may 
write the title, anthoi and publisher, size and price, of such 
books »r book as, according to their opinion, ought to be 
purchased for the Library. Each person recommending 



South Carolina College. 35 

a book in this way shall also add his own name to the 
title, &c. of the recommended book. And the Librarian 
shall lay the said book before the Trustees at their several 
meetings. 

162. The Librarian shall hold his office for one year, Salary of Li- 
and as a compensation for his services shall receive a sal- brarian. 
ary of six hundred dollars. 



CHAPTER XIV. 

Of the Bursar ship and Commons. 

163. The Bursar shall be appointed annually by the Bursar, how 
Board of Trustees, and be removable for cause at any appointed, 
time by this Board, or a Board of supervision composed of 

the Faculty and a committee of Trustees, and also be 
subject to such rules and regulations as a majority of the 
Board of Trustees shall from time to time adopt and ap- 
point. 

164. He shall receive a salary at the rate of one thou- H . , 
sand dollars per annum, payable at the end of each quarter. 

165. He shall be entitled to provisions from the co-m- Entitledt 
mons hall for himself and family, during the sessions of visions 
College only. 

166. Before entering upon the duties of his employment, 

he shall give a bond in the penalty of five thousand dol- His bond - 
lars, with good surety, for the faithful performance of his 
duties, and proper use of the funds placed in his hands, 
which bond shall be approved by the Executive Commit- 
tee, and placed in charge of the Treasurer, who shall re- 
port annually in relation to said bond. 

167. The Bursar shall be furnished by the College 
Treasurer, at the commencement of every session, with a 

sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, at the discretion Hlsdut y- 
of the Board of supervision, for the purpose of laying in 
his supplies, and shall thereafter receive from the Treasu- 
rer, weekly in advance, a sum sufficient to defray the 
current expenses of the commons. With this money he 
shall purchase, in an economical manner, an ample sup- 
ply of good and wholesome provisions for the Commons 
Hall, and for no other purpose whatsoever, and take care 
that it is well prepared and served, in a neat and cleanly 
manner. He shall keep a strict account of all his expen- 



36 South Carolina College. 

ditures, and preserve his vouchers ; and at the end of 
every month shall have his ledger and vouchers properly 
arranged, and present them to the Board of Supervision 
for examination and verification ; nor shall any provisions 
bought for the Commons be sold, except by order of the 
Board of Supervision, or the Faculty acting in their stead. 

168. The Faculty of the College, and five Trustees to 
Feculty to su- be nominated annually, shall constitute a Board of super- 
pervise Bursar vision, who shall have entire control over the Bursarship 

during the recess of the Board of Trustees, and shall 
have power to remove the Bursar for good cause, and fill 
his place until the next meeting of the Board, and make 
any other regulations not conflicting with the fundamental 
laws of the College or the resolutions of the Board of 
Trustees. 

169. It shall be the duty of the Board of supervision to 
see that the Bursar faithfully fulfills the obligations of his 
contract. 

170. The Faculty may examine his accounts and decide 
on their correctness. They may also issue the requisition 
on the College Treasurer for the weekly allowance to the 
Bursar, and for the contingent fund to be advanced at the 
commencement of the session. And they snail, during the 
week preceding the June examination in every year, make 
a final settlement with him for the expenditures of the 
session, salary, &c. But on all questions affecting the re- 
moval of the Bursar or 1 the appointment of a temporary 
successor, a concurrence of a majority of the Faculty and 
a majority of the committee of trustees shall be necessary. 

171. Each student shall pay to the College Treasurer, 
Price of board °L Uarteri y5 m advance, at the rate of two dollars and fifty 

' cents per week, for his board in the Commons. And 
should any Student die, or leave College by permission, 
the sum advanced shall be accounted for, and the balance 
due him be refunded, if it exceed the amount of two 
weeks board. 
Who to board 172. The board of the Bell ringer, and two servants, 
free. shall also be defrayed out of the Commons fund, and 
covers shall be reserved daily for one member of the Fa- 
culty and one Trustee. 
Bill of fare. 173. The following shall be observed as the bill of fare. 

Breakfast. 

Breakfast. Good Coffee and Tea, Wheat Bread, Butter, Hominy, 
and Eggs or cold Meat. 



South Carolina College. 37 

Dinner. 

There shall be, for every day, Wheat and Corn Bread, Dinner. 
and Rice, and one or more vegetable dishes. 

On Sunday. — Poultry or Roast Beef, Ham and dessert. 
" Monday. — Soup, Roast Beef or Yeal and Ham. 
" Tuesday. — Corned Beef, Pork or Steak. 
" Wednesday. — Poultry, or Roast Beef and Ham. 
" Thursday. — Bacon, Mutton or Steak and dessert. 
" Friday. — Fish, Corned Beef or Pork. 
" Saturday. — Soup, Roast Beef or Yeal or Mutton 
and Ham. 

With such other varieties as the market will afford. 

Tea. 

Tea 

Coffee and Tea, Bread, Butter, and occasionally cold 
meats. 

174. The Bursar shall cultivate the garden of the Com- Bursar to cul- 
mons Hall, for the use of the Commons. tivate garden. 

175. The professors shall attend the meals of the stu- 
dents at Commons, in monthly rotation, and the students Professors to 
shall submit to such regulations as the attending Profes- 
sor shall prescribe for their good order. 

176. The attending Professor shall ask a blessing before 
every meal. Gracc ' 

177. Students are required to enter the dining hall in a 

decent and orderly manner, and to conduct themselves Students to be 
with propriety while they remain, and if any one shall °JJ£J® m 
violate this rule, or shall be guilty of talking loud, or 
striking or treating the servants ill, or otherwise misbe- 
have, he shall be liable to admonition or suspension. 

178. The students are strictly forbidden to make any 

waste of provisions or of the furniture of the table or Not !° f u 1 e 
dining room. All who shall violate this law shall make 
such reparation as the Faculty shall deem adequate, and 
shall be liable to such further punishment as the Faculty 
may think fit. 

179. The students shall all board in Commons, and 

lodge in the College, except those whose parents or guar- Students all to 
dians reside in Columbia or its immediate vicinity, and board ln Com " 

i -li- ill i mons. 

who may wish their sons to board at home ; and except 

also in cases of sickness, when it shall appear, from the 

certificate of a practising physician, that the state of the ^ 

student's health requires him to lake, lodging out of the p 

College. In these cases, the President may permit the 



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South Carolina College. 



Deductions. 



student to board or lodge out of the College until his health 
shall be sufficiently restored. 

ISO. Xo deduction shall be made from the bills for 
board in Commons, except when any student shall obtain 
leave of absence for more than fourteen days, and shall 
be actually absent from the town of Columbia, in pursu- 
ance of such leave, of which the student shall give im- 
mediate notice to the President, and if he neglect to do so, 
he shall pay the full price during his absence. Every 
student who shall be unavoidably detained after the com- 
mencement of the first or any other quarter of the session, 
shall give immediate notice to the President of his return to 
the Commons, or be liable to pay board from the first day 
of the quarter hi which he shall return. 

181. The Faculty shall also have power to make such 
rules and regulations for the government of the Bursar, 
not inconsistent with the laws of the College, as they 
shall deem necessary to secure the faithful discharge of 
his duties, and to secure cleanliness in the buildings 
which he occupies. 

152. If any student who does not board in Commons 

Students ma y shall, from inclemency of the weather, or other cause, 

siemlv. irTcer-fi 110 ^ ft necessary to resort to Commons for his meals, or to 

tain' cases, board there for a short period, the student shall pay the 

Treasurer at such rate as the Faculty shall prescribe. 



Faculty may 
make rules. 



CHAPTER XT 



Of the Marshall and the College Buildings. 

1S3. There shall be a College Marshall, who shall be 

Marshall, how appointed by the Faculty, and removed by them at plea- 

to be appoint- sure : anc [ as a compensation for his services, he shall 

6 * receive an annual salary of four hundred dollars, payable 

quarterly in advance. 

184. He shall have the general superintendance and 
His duty, inspection of all the College buildings, out buildings and 
other fixtures, except those occupied by the other officers, 
and over the grounds within the College enclosure, and 
shall especially take care that none of them are injured 
or destroyed, and shall forthwith report to the Faculty 
any injury they may have sustained, and the author of it, 
if he be known. 

1S5. He shall report to the Faculty weekly, at their 



South Carolina College. 39 

stated meetings, the condition of the buildings, especially 
as to their want of cleanliness and repairs, and shall Duties of Mar- 
superintend all repairs and cleaning which the Faculty sha11 - 
shall direct. 

186. It shall be the duty of the Marshall to inform the 
members of the Faculty of bonfires, or any other disturb- 
ance caused by the students, and he shall aid and assist 
the Faculty in detecting the offenders, if required to do so 
by the former. 

187. He shall remove, or cause to be removed, from 
within the College enclosure, all such persons (not belong- 
ing to the College) horses, cattle, or other objects, which 
are calculated to disturb the quiet and order of the insti- 
tution. 

188. The Marshall sh,all also have the superintendance 
of the servants employed in or about the College, and see 
that they discharge the duties assigned them. 

189. No servant, other than the servants of the officers, 
and College servants, shall be employed in or about, the 
College, under any pretence whatever, without the express 
permission of the Marshall. 

190. To distinguish those servants who may have the 
permission of the Marshall so to work and be employed 
about the College, he shall furnish them with a badge, 
which they shall wear conspicuously. 

191. It shall be the duty of the Marshall to purchase, 
at the most convenient seasons, and on the best terms, a 
sufficient stock of fire wood, and he shall, from time to 
time, deliver to the students at their rooms what they may 
want, provided the amount thereof shall not exceed the 
amount deposited by each student in the hands of the 
Treasurer for that purpose ; the wood to be cut of length 
suited to their fire-places. 

192. In all things not herein provided for, he shall be 
under the direction and control of the Faculty. 

193. The better to enable the Marshall to discharge the 
duties assigned him, wood yards or sheds shall be erected, 
under the direction of the Committee of the Board, at the 
expense of the College and within the College enclosure. 

194. Until a suitable building is provided, the Faculty 
shall assign the Marshall a residence in the College build- 
ings. 

195. At the end of the session, the students shall leave 
the keys of their apartments with the Marshall, with a 
label attached, designating the room and inscribed with 
their names. 

196. One of the servants of the College shall reside ill 
a lodge, to be erected at or near the principal entrance to 



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the College, and it shall be the duty of the Marshall to see 
Duties of Mar- that he 'executes all orders that the Faculty may give in 
shall. relation to opening and shutting the gate. 

197. The Marshall shall give bond and security for the 
faithful discharge of his duties, in the penalty of five hun- 
dred dollars. 



CHAPTER XVI. 



Of Offences, Rewards at\d Punishments. 

198. The rewards and punishments of this institution 
Principle of shall be addressed to the sense of duty, and to the princi- 
punishment. pies of honor and shame. 

199. The punishments of the College shall be private 
admonition by an officer of the College, or by order of the 

Degrees of Faculty — admonition before the Faculty— admonition 
punishment, before the class of the offender, or in the presence of a se- 
lect number of persons ; information communicated by 
order of the Faculty to the parent or guardian of the of- 
fender ; suspension from the privileges of the College ; 
formal and public expulsion. Besides which, the Faculty 
may, in all cases of gross deficiency, degrade a student to 
an inferior class, or refuse him promotion at the com- 
mencement. 

200. For violation of any of the laws of the College, 
for which no particular punishment is designated, the 
punishment shall be admonition or suspension, at the dis- 
cretion of the Faculty. 

201. The President, with the assent of the Faculty, 
may request any parent or guardian to remove any stu- 
dent from College, whose general deportment and conduct 
is irregular, improper or offensive, or likely to be of bad 
example to the students, and send him away accordingly. 

202. Any student who shall be guilty of any infamous 
Duelling. or atrocious offence, or shall fight a duel, or give or accept 

a challenge to fight a duel, or shall carry any challenge 
to fight a duel, or act as a second to those who shall give 
or accept a challenge, shall be forthwith suspended from 
the College and reported for expulsion. 

203. All students are strictly forbidden to game, to use 
profane or obscene language, to lie, steal, or get drunk, or 

Gaming, &c. be guilty of riotous, disorderly or immoral conduct ; and 



South Carolina College. • 41 

if any of them shall transgress in these respects, he shall 
be admonished, suspended or expelled, as the case may 
require. 

204. If any student shall wilfully insult, assault or In , ._ ffi 
strike any of the officers of the College, he shall be sus- cer f. 
pended or expelled, as the case may require. 

205. If any student shall keep in his room, or within Keeping dead- 
the College, or in the town of Columbia, or its vicinity, ty weapons, 
any pistol, dirk, sword-cane, bowie knife, or other deadly 
weapon, he shall be forthwith suspended and reported for 
expulsion. 

206. No student shall use or keep within the precincts Liquors, &c. 
of the College, or bring within the same, any spirituous 

liquors, dogs, or arms or ammunition ; nor shall any one 
keep or hire any horse or mule, servant or servants, with- Hiring horses, 
out permission of the President ; and any student who 
shall violate this rule shall be liable to admonition, sus- 
pension or expulsion. 

207. No student shall play on any instrument of music Musical in- 
on Sunday, or during the hours assigned for study ; and struments. 
the students are strictly enjoined to abstain from their 

usual diversions and exercises on the Sabbath day. 

208. No student shall be permitted to entertain compa- Com an . 
ny in his room, and if any student shall refuse to open rooms, 
the door of his room, when required by any one of the 
Faculty or a Tutor, he shall be liable to admonition, sus- 
pension or expulsion. 

209. No student, or students, shall be permitted to make B ,, 
any ball or festive entertainment, except a ball at Com- 
mencement ; nor shall any student attend or take part in 

any thing of the kind without the special permission of 
the President. 

210. All combinations amongst the students to oppose 

the authority of the Faculty, or impede the operation of Combinations, 
the laws, are strictly forbidden ; particularly combinations 
not to attend prayers, recitations or public worship, indi- 
cated by the cry of "hold back," "no recitation," or other 
signal ; and all who offend against this law shall be liable 
to admonition, suspension or expulsion, at the discretion 
of the Faculty. 

211. No student shall leave the town of Columbia, Leaving Co- 
without the permission of the President. lumbia. 

212. No student, or students, shall make any bonfire, 

or other like fire, within or near the College enclosure, nor Bonfires » &c - 
shall they throw or use any fire-ball or lighted torch with- 
in the same, on pain of admonition, suspension or expul- 
sion, at the discretion of the Faculty. 
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South Carolina College. 



d nts as 
nesses 



213. The Faculty shall not, for mere College misde- 
Calling on stu- meanors, call on one student to give information against 

wit ~ another, unless when riotous or disorderly conduct shall 
take place in the room of any student, in which case he 
shall be bound to designate the true offender, if he was 
present at the time, or be considered as taking the guilt 
of the offence on himself, and shall be punished accord- 
ingly. 

214. If, on subsequent and satisfactory information, it 
shall appear that any student has permitted another to be 
punished for an offence of which the former, and not the 
latter, was guilty, the student thus dishonorably conceal- 
ing his own guilt, shall be expelled. 

215. If any riot, disturbance, or other misdemeanor 
shall take place in the actual view of the Faculty or Tu- 
tors, or any of them, in any particular tenement, the 
Faculty shall be at liberty to call upon the students, or 
any of them, inhabiting that tenement, or present at the 
time, to exculpate himself or themselves from having had 
any participation therein or to confess the same. 

216. If the Faculty or Tutors, or any of them, shall 
observe several students in company together at the time 
and place of an offence committed, and shall not be able 
to designate the actual offender, the Faculty may call on 
all or any of the students seen together, and require each 
or any of them to exculpate himself, or themselves, from 
any participation or concurrence therein ; and upon his or 
their refusal to do so, he or they shall be regarded as the 
offenders, and be proceeded against accordingly. 

217. Whenever the Faculty shall receive information, 
from any credible source, furnishing them sufficient ground 
of reasonable suspicion, that any student has been guilty 
of misconduct, proper to be noticed, they shall call up the 
student accused, and put him on his denial or exculpa- 
tion, and if he shall refuse to answer, he shall be deemed 
guilty of the offence, and proceeded against accordingly. 
If he shall deny that he is guilty of the offence with which 
he is charged, that shall be considered prima facie proof 
of his innocence. But if it shall afterwards appear, from 
satisfactory competent evidence, that he was really guilty, 
he shall be suspended and reported for expulsion, for hav- 
ing been guilty of falsehood. 

218. In all cases where any student shall be convicted 
before the Faculty, of any offence which shall, in their 
judgment, authorize expulsion as the punishment, they 
shall forthwith suspend and order him from the College, 



Expulsion. 



South Carolina College. 43 

and make a minute and particular report thereof to the 
Board of Trustees at their next meeting. 

219. If any student shall be convicted of having or 
blowing any horn or trumpet, or beating any drum, or of Blowingtrum _ 
disturbing the quiet of the institution by riding any horse pets, &c. 
or mule within or near the College enclosure, or of ma- 
king any loud or unusual noise by any other means, with- 
in or about the same, he shall be punished by admonition 

or suspension, at the discretion of the Faculty. 

220. If any student shall, knowingly, receive, harbor „ . 

or entertain in his room, any other student who has been suspendeiisfu- 
suspended and ordered to leave the College by the Fac- dents, 
ulty, he shall be liable to admonition or suspension, at the 
discretion of the Faculty. 



CHAPTER XVII. 

Miscellaneous. 

221. The Professors may, in their discretion, permit Fe J sons not 
persons not students of the College to attend their lectures, at tend lee- 
on such terms as they may prescribe. tures. 

222. The Faculty are authorized to employ two addi- 
tional servants, if they shall deem that number necessary, Servants. 
one for the Laboratory, and one to sweep the rooms and 

make the beds of the Students. 

223. The Faculty may, in their discretion, employ a Bellman, 
bellman, who shall be allowed his board in commons as 

a compensation for his services. 

224. The Faculty shall make all such rules and regu- Faculty may 
lations, not inconsistent with the laws of the College, as make rules, 
may be necessary to carry them into effect according to 

their true intent and meaning. 

225. During vacation, the President of the Faculty (or Disorderly 
any one of the Faculty to whom he may delegate the au-P ei ^ ons t0 be 
thority,) is authorized to exclude from the Campus and 6X Sp U ^ 
College buildings any student who may disturb the quiet 

and peace of the premises. 

226. No new laws shall be made, or any of the forego- New * 
ing altered or amended, unless a resolution to that effect 
shall have been submitted to the Board at least six days 
before the final vote shall be taken, nor then without the 
concurrence of two-thirds of the members present, 



41 South Carolina College. 

Course :~ S :"'e\ J.^/7?/.y.y/G>;. ^c 

'227. A candidate for adr::: i fythe Facul- 

ftttMatiftm : i r - t»y written testimonials, that he sustains : good moral 
foi admisskm. character. In ordinary ::.ses. the certificate must be smil- 
ed by his last instructor. I:" 'from another college, his 
standing in that college mns: be shown tc have been good 
at the time :: his Leaving ::. The stated :::::e^ ::: exam- 
ination are. the first \reek in October, and the week be- 
fore commencement; but in case of urge::: necessity, ap- 
plicants may be exa min ed at any other time during the 
sess:::: 

225. Students admitted to advanced standing, in addi- 
tion to the requisites for admission to the Freshman Glass, 
must be prepared for an examine::::: in the studies which 
have been pursued by the class that they lesire to enter. 
and by the preceding classes. :: ::: :::::: s:e::i:e5 equiva- 
lent to them. 

For Admission to the Freshman Class. 

A candidate is required to have an accurate knowledge of 

the English. Latin and Greek Grammars, including 

Prose ly. 
Morse's, Worcester's m Woodbrklge's Geography. 
Ancient Geography. 
Arithmetic, including Fractions, and the Extraction of 

R jots. 
Algebra, as fai as Equations ifihe First Degree, 
Sallust 

Virgil. GeorgicSj Bucolics* and ?:x be :ks ::" the fE::eid.) 
Cicero's ^eie:: Orations consisting of the four against Cat- 

aline. Pro Lege Manilla. Fro Archia Poeta. Pro Mi- 

lone, and the hist Phihpic. 
Arnold's Latin P: : se C : m| : sition. 
Ja job's Greek Reefer. 
Xenophon's Cyropedia. four Books. 
Homer's Iliad, the first Book. 

>~ i - of the Freshman Year. 

Grecian and Roman Antiquities. 

- : - ;f :: * Lfvv. 

Horace, except the art of Poetry. 
Xenophon's Anabasis. s:x Peeks. 
Homer's Iliad, continued to the sixth Book 
Latin Composition. 
Bourdon's Algebra. [Davies 



st": 



South Carolina College. 45 

Geometry, (Davies' Legendre.) 

Ancient History. Course of 

English Language. studies - 

Sophomore Year. 

Tacitus, (his Germany and Life of Agricola.) 

Livy. 

Exercises in Latin Composition. 

Graeca Majora, (the Historians and Orators.) 

Plane and Spherical Trigonometry. 

Conic Sections, (Loomis'.) 

Davies' Mensuration and Surveying. 

Lectures on Descriptive Geometry. 

History of the Middle Ages. 

Whately's Logic ; Whately's Rhetoric. 

Heat, Light, and Electricity. 

Elocution. 

History of the Bible. 

Junior Year. 

Select parts of Cicero's Rhetorical Work. 

Horace's Art of Poetry. 

Select satires of Juvenal and Persius. 

Graeca Majora, (the Orators, Philosophers and Critics.) 

Exercises in Latin Composition. 

Lectures on Differential and Integral Calculus. 

Mechanical Philosophy, (Olmsted's.) 

Galvanism, Magnetism and Electro Magnetism. 

Modern History. 

Elements of Criticism and Elocution. 

Moral Philosophy. 

Political Philosophy. 

Physiology. 

Sacred Literature and Evidences of Christianity. 

Senior Year. 

Select parts of Cicero's Ethical Works, 

Select Plays of the Greek Dramatists. 

Exercises in Latin and Greek Composition. 

Astronomy. 

Civil Engineering, (Mahan's.) 

Political Economy. 

Political Ethics. 

Philosophy of the Mind. 



46 South Carolina College. 

Criticism and Elocution. 

Chemistry, Geology, Mineralogy and Agricultural Chem- 
istry. 
Sacred Literature and Evidences of Christianity. 

229. There are three recitations of each class, daily : one 
after morning prayers; one at 11 o'clock, A. M. ; one at 
Recitations. 4 o'clock, P. M. On Saturday morning there is one reci- 
tation. There are lectures, rhetorical exercises and com- 
positions, English and Latin, at such times as the Faculty 
may appoint. 
P d H' 230. The Faculty specially call the attention of parents and 
tory and Ge- guardians to the requisitions on Prosody, History and Ge- 
ography, ography. On these subjects, so necessary for a profitable 
course through college, applicants are generally very de- 
ficient, and hereafter they will be insisted on. The short- 
est and most effectual way to impart much of the neces- 
sary knowledge of ancient geography, is always to use 
an Atlas in the reading of Greek and Latin authors. 



RESOLUTIONS OF LEGISLATURE, 

AND 

MESSAGES OF GOVERNORS. 



Reps, and Res. of 1815, p. 91. 
231. $6,000 appropriated for Chemical apartment. 



Reps, and Res. of 1815, p. 110. 
232. Two Students from City Council directed. 



Reps, and Res. of 1823, .p. 91. 

233. Resolved, That the Trustees of the South Carolina Col- 
lege be requested to consider the propriety and advantage of es- 
tablishing a Professorship of Law in that institution, and to re- 
port to this House, at the next session, the manner in which such 
Professorship may be established, so as to be most advantageous 
to the community, and least expensive to the State. 



Reps, and Res. of 1 823, p. 111. 

234. The committee on the College, to whom was referred so 
much of the Governor's Message as relates to the " South Caro- 
lina College," beg leave to report, that they have considered the 
same, and are of opinion that the view which his Excellency has 
taken of the improvement in public education throughout the 
State, is correct, and is worthy of the great and interesting sub- 



48 South Carolina College. 

ject which, it is intended to embrace ; and they believe that the 
College of Columbia, created by the patriotism and wisdom of a 
former legislature, and supported by the bounty and liberality of 
their successors, has already given back to the State the most 
ample compensation for its endowment, and affords the most 
abundant cause of congratulation to every lover of letters, and to 
every lover of his country. The triumph of learning is pro- 
claimed throughout the State, and the voice of improvement is 
heard in every parish and in every village, from the seaboard to 
the mountains. A taste for knowledge is excited only to be 
gratified, and the power of intellect is felt and acknowledged in 
every corner of the State ; the dormant genius of many a youtk 
is roused from its slumber, and devoted to usefulness and the 
glory of his country. 

The distinction which is so frequently attained by the alumni 
of this institution, not only in the learned professions, and in 
the legislature of Carolina, but in the deliberative assemblies of 
the general government, cannot be contemplated without pride 
and exultation. Your committee are unwilling to dismiss the 
subject referred to their consideration, without expressing their 
approbation of a particular portion of his Excellency's message. 

They believe that the wisdom and the learning of Dr. Cooper, 
which it has taken a long life to amass, now redound to the honor 
of the College over which he presides, contribute in an eminent 
degree to the best interests of the State, and to that species of 
happiness which is the result of civilization, and the reward of a 
virtuous and enlightened community. Your committee believe 
that under the influence of science and learning, the gloom of 
ignorance and the intolerance of fanaticism will be dissipated, 
and that true religion and political happiness must advance, un- 
der the liberal and enlightened system of instruction now adopt- 
ed in the College ; and they pray most fervently to the Griver of 
all good, to continue to our country the mercies and favors she 
enjoys, and to increase in our hearts, not only a willingness to 
acknowledge Him, but the sincerest gratitude and love for his 
fatherly protection and support. 



Reps, and Res. of 1823, p. 121. 
235. $5,000 appropriated for purchase of Library. 



Reps, and Res. of 1824, jo. 80 

236. The committee on the College, to whom was referred 
certain papers relating to this institution, beg leave to report, 
that they have examined the same, and ask leave to call the at- 



South Carolina College. 49 

tention of the Senate to Message No. 1, of his late Excellency 
Governor Wilson. Your committee are assured, that they are 
not only authorized to express their feelings on this subject, so 
interesting to the sons of South Carolina — so important in its 
operations to the aspiring youth whose journey through life is 
yet to be accomplished — so joyous in its aspect to the venerable 
patriot, whose silvered locks proclaim that his service is .done, 
and who now reclines under the shade of the Palmetto, silently 
to contemplate the prosperity of his country — but they believe 
it to be their duty to congratulate their fellow citizens on the 
very promising and happy state in which the College of Colum- 
bia is now known to be. 

, They recommend most earnestly to the Legislature, to con- 
tinue the liberal and enlightened patronage which they have 
hitherto extended to the advancement of learning, and the acqui- 
sition of all useful knowledge, so completely identified with this 
favorite object. In a republic like ours, where the preservation 
of liberty, political and civil, has no other arm to rest on but the 
virtue of the people, it requires no argument to prove, that to 
enlighten the people, is to give the best security for the continu- 
ance of their freedom. 

They hold it to be indisputable in politics as in morals, that 
the very worst kind of slavery, is that dull submission to dark- 
ness and to vice, too often incidental to untutored ignorance — 
that the tyrant whose sway is most cruel and unrelenting, is de- 
pendent for his power upon the unkindly extinction of letters 
and of light. 

Your committee feel confident that the best economy which 
can be pursued, is to encourage those virtuous feelings of the 
human heart, which go hand in hand with the enlargement and 
improvement of the human understanding; and they look with 
certainty for these happy results, as the reward of your munifi- 
cent appropriations, and introduction into life of that native talent 
whose influence is felt throughout the State, and for your foster- 
ing care of that retiring genius whose rays are now given to il- 
lumine the councils of your country. 

The gratifying sensations which are necessarily produced by 
these reflections, are much enhanced by perusing the lumin- 
ous and classical report accompanying the catalogue of books 
lately purchased for the College Library. 

The efforts of patriotism cannot but succeed, when thus aided 
by the refinement and elegance of the most accomplished schol- 
ar. How can the student, whose lamp is trimmed for academic 
research, fail to be distinguished, when the brightest ornament 
of society, when the champion of true philosophy, the devoted 
friend and lover of the arts, forms an example in a single indi- 
vidual for the youthful American to admire and to imitate 1 
Need we say that this valuable man, who, now, and on many 
other occasions, claims for himself this feeble tribute to his 
worth, is one whose name, both at home and abroad, is nearly 
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50 South Carolina College. 

allied to every thing connected with the beauties of literature, 
and the finest specimens of rhetoric and of taste, your conspicu- 
ous fellow-citizen, Stephen Elliott. 

Your committee would do an injustice to themselves, and a 
still greater injustice to one branch of your government, if they 
hesitated to express their entire belief that the Judges of the 
Courts of Law and Equity, in presiding at the Board as ex-offi- 
cio Trustees, have contributed largely, by their acknowledged 
learning, as well as by their individual and distinguished respec- 
tability, to the promotion of that prosperity which the friends of 
this institution now regard as a subject of self-congratulation ; 
they cannot do other than determine, that it would be highly 
inexpedient to dispense with the services of those to whose wis- 
dom and integrity are entrusted the lives and property of their 
countrymen. 



Reps, and Res. of 1825, £>. 72, 

237. The committee on the College, to whom was referred so much 
of the Governor's Message as relates to the South Carolina Col- 
lege, beg leave to report, that they have attentively considered 
the same, and recommend that five thousand dollars be appro- 
priated for the purchase of Books for the College Library. 

Your committee, in suggesting to your honorable body the ex- 
pediency of making this appropriation, are influenced by those 
considerations which they believe are strongly impressed upon 
the minds of their fellow-citizens at large. They are directed 
by those views which a succession of enlightened Legislatures 
have invariably taken of this invaluable institution. They are 
prone to indulge in those feelings which they believe are promi- 
nent in the bosom of every lover of letters, and every lover of 
his country. They believe that the best system of economy 
which can be adopted, is to protect and encourage the dissemi- 
nation of all useful knowledge. 

In contemplating the advantages which are daily accruing to 
the State from the establishment of this institution, your com- 
mittee cannot refrain from repeating what they have often ex- 
pressed, their unbounded respect for the wisdom and patriotism 
of those men whose names are recorded as the founders of this 
monument of their intelligence and virtue. 'Tis the policy of 
tyrants to entrammel the human understanding, and the privi- 
lege of despotism to darken the intellect of slaves. 'Tis the se- 
curity of freedom that her sons are enlightened, and the boast of 
republicans that theirs is the doctrine of equal rights, which can 
alone be maintained by the diffusion of general and correct in- 
formation. 'Tis for them to remember, that -'knowledge is pow- 
er," and their liberty is safe : but should they ever forget that 
political strength is but another name for learning and for sci- 



South Carolina College. 51 

enee, and that liberty is endangered. Your committee feel no 
disposition to dwell upon a subject which is already so well un- 
derstood, or unnecessarily to urge a continuance of your patron- 
age, when they believe that its influence is so universally ac- 
knowledged in every corner of your State, and in every depart- 
ment of your government the living evidences that your liberal- 
ity has been rewarded, are pre-eminently conspicuous. The 
flowers of literature are blooming in every valley, and the tree 
which " puts forth good fruit," is dispensing its blessings from 
the tops of your mountains to the shoals of the Atlantic. J Tis 
for you to admire this beautiful picture, to cultivate this garden 
which has been seeded by yourself, and to leave to your posteri- 
ty the abundant harvest which its fertility will ensure them. 
The catalogue of Mineralogical specimens, collected by a distin- 
guished member of the Faculty, under the direction of this Le- 
gislature, furnishes the strongest assurance of his industry and 
science, and the richness of the country he has been directed to 
explore. Your committee are under the most sanguine expecta- 
tions that the day is not distant, when the bowels of the earth 
will be found to contain the means of increasing the fertility of 
its surface in every section of our country ; and they recom- 
mend most earnestly, a continuance of these examinations, not 
only for the benefit of those who are to be instructed in academ- 
ic pursuits, but also for the promotion of agricultural prosperity — 
let the farmer and the scholar be equally the objects of your mu- 
nificence and wisdom. In closing the discharge of their annual 
duties, your committee feel more than ordinary gratification in 
expressing their entire coincidence of opinion and of feeling 
with his Excellency, when he calls to your notice those gentle- 
men whose studies are but just completed, and who are now be- 
yond the reach of your solicitude and control. It is but fair to 
give them your unmingled approbation. They are gone forth 
to the world, to do honor to themselves, and honor to their 
instructors. They have left an example to be admired and be 
imitated by those who have succeeded to their places. 



Reps, and Res. of 1825, p. 113. 

238. Resolved, That the Faculty of the South Carolina College be 
requested to prepare a detailed system for the better regulation 
of the public schools, and other seminaries of learning in this 
State, and that they report the same at an early period of the 
next session of the Legislature. 



52 South Carolina College. 

Reps, and Res. of 1827, p. 3. 

239. Comptroller General reports as to College disbursinents. 



Reps, ami Res. of 1831, 7?. 57. 

240. Committee report prosperity of College, and against re- 
duction of tuition fees. 



From Gov. Hamilton s Message, 1832. 



fe^j 



241. No circumstance has occurred to diminish our well foun- 
ded confidence in the usefulness of the South Carolina College, 
which is going on with regularity and success in the process of 
qualifying those who are to come after us to fulfil the high func- 
tions and offices appertaining to the public weal. — That this 
fountain of light may diffuse its beams over our whole State, and 
be felt in the wide extention of literature, science, and all 
useful knowledge, must depend on your parental care and unre- 
laxed vigilance. To discharge this duty is a debt which you must 
pay, under a sacred obligation., to posterity. 



From Gov. Haynds Message, 1833. 

242. I feel that it is scarcely necessary for me to advert to 
the necessity of bestowing continued and increasing attention to 
Education, the only sure basis of free government. The establish- 
ment and support, at an annual expense to the State of upwards 
of $50,000, of the South Carolina College, and the Free Schools, 
bear ample testimony of the deep interest which continues to be 
felt in this subject. The College has unquestionably contributed 
largely to the extension of knowledge ; and in the distribution 
throughout the State of well educated and influential men. has 
amply repaid all the care and attention of the State. The Free 
Schools, if they have been less successful, have, I am persuaded, 
done much for the poor, and have contributed to the extension 
of intelligence, virtue and religion. Both institutions are believed, 
however, to be capable of great improvement, and demand the 
paternal supervision of the Legislature. With regard to the 
Free Schools, the best information of their present condition, as 
well as the improvements of which they are susceptible, is to be 



South Carolina College. 53 

obtained from the Representatives of the several Districts and Par- 
ishes of the State. My duty therefore is performed in pressing the 
subject upon your consideration. With respect to the Col- 
lege, I shall forbear to make any specific recommendations, un- 
til I can avail myself of the counsel and advice of the Board of 
Trustees, who are to be assembled here in the course of a few 
days. Their proceedings, together with a Report of the Faculty 
as to the present condition of this highly valuable and interest- 
ing institution, and the measures proper to be adopted for its 
improvement, will then be laid before you. 



Reps, and Res. o/1834,_p. 9. 

243. Committee think the Trustees did right in requesting 
Professors to resign — approve uniform dress — discountenance 
extravagance, and recommend appropriation to put College in. 
repair. 



Res and Reps, of 1835,^>. 31. 
244. New house for professors erected. 



Res. and Rep>s. of 1835, £>. 53. 
245. Trustees to report tuition money, &c. annually, 



Res. and Reps, of 1835, p. 55. 

246. Be it therefore resolved by the Senate and House of Represen- 
tatives, in Genercd Assembly met, That the Trustees of the South 
Carolina College, together with the Solicitor of the Southern Cir- 
cuit, are hereby requested and enjoined to put into immediate 
and vigilant exercise, all means provided by the existing laws, to 
exterminate from the town of Columbia and its vicinity, bawdy 
houses, gambling houses, and other similar nuisances, calculated 
to vitiate the morals, pervert the minds, and destroy the health 
of the young men committed to their charge ; and should exist- 
ing remedies be found, on full experiment, inefficacious, then 
that fchey consider of and report fco the Legislature at its next 
session, such changes or amendments in fche law as to them may 
seem expedient and necessary fco accomplish fcheobjecl 



54 South Carolina College. 

Be it also resolved, That the Intendant and Wardens, and the 
oitizena generally, of Columbia, are earnestly entreated, as they 
value the great interests of morality and religion, the deeencies 

of life, the health ami general welfare of their community, and 
the character especially of the important institution established 
in their bosom, to co-operate, by their example, and by such local 
Legislation as they may deem practicable, to suppress these most 
disgraceful and corrupting nuisances. 



From Gov. McDujJiJs Message, 1835. 

247. It gives me very great pleasure to inform you that our 
College has resumed its labors under the most flattering auspi- 
ces, and promises to be every way worthy of the liberal and en- 
lightened patronage by which it has been heretofore sustained. 
Under the strong impulse it has received from the zealous ex- 
ertions of the Board of Trustees, sustained by the patriotism of 
the whole State, it has already risen from its ruinous condition, 
and is pressing on, with renovated ardor, in the career of literary 
and scientific distinction. Under the guidance of a faculty 
equally distinguished for high qualifications and devotion to their 
very important duties, it offers to the rising generation of our 
State as many advantages as any similar institution in the United 
States. I cannot too strongly recommend it to the patronage of 
an enlightened Legislature, and to the countenance and support 
of every patriotic citizen. It is scarcely possible to place too 
high an estimate on its importance. Upon its successful admin- 
istration will depend, in no small degree, the character and des- 
tiny of the State. The very great and salutary change which 
it has produced in the character of our community, within the 
last thirty years, is an evidence of the high purposes to which it 
can be made subservient. Our experience, however, but too 
conclusively proves that a munificent endowment by the Legis- 
lature, and a faithful performance of their respective trusts, by 
the 'Trustees and Faculty, are not of themselves sufficient to en- 
sure the success of this institution. The community at large 
must give it their countenance and support, and in some sort, 
their superintendence. From all parts of the State, there should 
be a general attendance of our prominent and educated citizens, 
at the annual commencements, who, with all the public func- 
tionaries, should be present to witness the performances of the 
youthful competitors for literary fame. Nothing could have a 
more salutary influence, in stimulating the exertions of the young 
men during the whole course of their college studies, than the 
prospect of this annual contest for distinction before the assem- 
bled intelligence of the State. The parents, also, who place 



South Carqlina College. 55 

their sons in the institution, must give the Trustees their 
cordial co-operation, in effecting a reform in the extravagant ha- 
bits of expenditure, which have heretofore prevailed, but too 
generally, amongst the students. Nothing is more unbecoming 
the character of a student, or more adverse to his proficiency in 
literary and scientific attainments, than these habits of extrava- 
gance. Every citizen is under obligations of patriotism, not less 
than of parental duty, to discountenance and repress such per- 
nicious habits, by withholding from his son the means of indul- 
ging them. Citizens of great wealth, in particular, owe it to the 
State, to set a public spirited example, in regulating the expenses 
of their sons, by reducing them to such a standard of economy, 
that the sons of citizens of moderate fortunes may not be temp- 
ted to go beyond their means, to avoid disparaging imputations 
and invidious comparisons. With a view to this important re- 
form, the trustees propose to adopt certain regulations, fixing a 
uniform dress, which every student will be required to wear, 
while under the authority of the College government, and a uni- 
form limitation upon the different branches of expenditure, 
which no student will be permitted to exceed. 

I confidently hope that no parent will give the least counte- 
nance to any attempt on the part of his son, to evade these salu- 
tary regulations. Small and unimportant as they may seem, the 
prosperity and usefulness of the College, as a public institution, 
will materially depend upon their rigid enforcement. 

The appropriation made at your last session, for repairing the 
College edifices, has been applied with judgment and economy, 
by the committee of the Board of Trustees, to whom that duty 
was confided. The College edifices are now in a complete state 
of repair, and the fund appropriated will be sufficient to enclose 
the College campus, and all the buildings pertaining to the in- 
stitution, with a substantial brick wall, which is now in progress 
and will soon be completed. 

The number of students now in the College is 85, of 

whom have entered since the 1st October last, and it is believed 
that by the first of January, the number will be not less than 120 ; 
exceeding the most sanguine expectations indulged by the friends 
of the institution. But while the Legislature, by the liberal 
endowment of this classical seminary, have provided for the 
higher branches of education, it is to be regretted that the pri- 
mary schools, where the elementary branches of education are 
taught, have been almost entirely neglected. In these schools, 
the rising generation of all classes receive their first impres- 
sions in the way of instruction ; and here a great part of the 
community obtain all the instruction they ever receive at schools. 
How vitally important, then, arc these humble institutions, in a 
community where the sovereign power of the State is not only 
recognized as residing in the body of the people, but is habitu- 
ally exercised by them in the periodical election of the public 



56 South Carolina College. 

functionaries. The dee]) importance of popular education to 
such a community, is universally admitted: but we are unfor- 
tunately too prone, in conformity with our American habits, to 
ELtisned with proclaiming the maxims of speculative truth, 
without taking steps to have them exemplified by measures of 
practical wisdom. In no country is the necessity of popular 
education so often proclaimed, and in none are the schools of el- 
ementary instruction more deplorably neglected. They are en- 
tirely without organization, superintendance or inspection of any 
kind, general or local, public or private. To the reproach of 
our republican institutions, it must be admitted that some of 
the monarchies of Europe have manifested a more enlightened 
zeal in the cause of popular education, than has been exhibited 
in South Carolina. In Prussia, the primary schools are special 
objects of the care, superintendance and patronage of the gov- 
ernment, and to provide competent instructors for these elemen- 
tary seminaries, normal schools are established and supported 
by the government, for the exclusive purpose of qualifying school- 
masters for their vocatton. So important is it there regarded, 
that the masters of the primary schools should be thoroughly 
qualified, that they are required to remain three years in these 
preparatory schools, after they have learned reading, writing, 
and the rudiments of arithmetic : and are even then not eligible 
to a mastership in the primary schools, until they have under- 
gone a thorough examination, and obtained a certificate of quali- 
fication from a competent board of examiners. It is mortifying 
to reflect, that not one in twenty of those instructors who have 
charge of our primary schools, and are thus invested with the sa- 
cred office of forming the minds of our children, could stand 
the scrutiny through which every school-master in Prussia must 
pass, before he is permitted to perform the very lowest functions 
of elementary instruction. A radical reform in this department 
of popular instruction is imperiously demanded by every conside- 
ration of patriotism, and although this salutary work must princi- 
pally depend upon the exertions of individuals and local associa- 
tions, the legislature might give aid and direction to the popular 
effort, by uniting the poor schools with the common primary 
schools of the country, and increasing, to a small extent, the ap- 
propriation for the education of the poor. 

It seems to be generally admitted, that this charitable fund 
has been productive of very little public benefit, and has in fact 
been perverted, in many instances, into a provision for the sup- 
port of indigent and incompetent schoolmasters. If all the Ju- 
dicial districts were divided into school districts of suitable di- 
mensions for primary schools, each of these selecting an intelli- 
gent school committee to superintend the business of primary edu- 
cation within its limits, the Commissioners of the poor schools 
might be directed to apply a certain portion of the fund entrust- 
ed to their management, to the support of those schools, in such 
a way, and upon such conditions, as would increase the compen- 






South Carolina College. 57 

sation, and at the same time insure the competency of the school 
masters. 

These suggestions are thrown out rather as indicating what 
ought to be done, and to draw your attention to the subject of 
elementary instruction, than with the view of pointing out the 
specific plan by which it may be best promoted. I am fully 
aware that any reform in the system of primary schools, to be 
extensively beneficial, must originate with the people, and be 
carried into execution by them, in their respective vicinities. 
There is no field of exertion, public or private, in which the du- 
ties of a parent and a patriot can be so usefully and honorably 
blended, as in the improvement, superintendance and inspection 
of the primary schools ; and it is to be hoped that every enlight- 
ened citizen will regard himself as a trustee of these elementa- 
ry seminaries, and a guardian of the children who are educated 
in them. I am thoroughly convinced that the compensation of 
the teachers in those institutions should be increased, and their 
standing in society elevated in the public estimation, to insure 
the necessary qualifications. No class of the community is cal- 
culated to exercise a more decisive influence upon the moral and 
intellectual character of the State, than the instructors general- 
ly, of the rising generation ; and nothing can be more pernicious 
than that false economy which would depress their compensa- 
tion, and that false opinion which would degrade their standing, 
below the appropriate standard indicated by their importance. 

Before I dismiss the interesting subject of public instruction, 
I must call your attention to the consideration of a change, which 
I regard as highly expedient, in the regulations of our College. 
Though this is appropriately a classical institution, I am never- 
theless of the opinion, that a knowledge of the dead languages 
should not be made an indispensable condition of obtaining all 
its privileges, its advantages and its honors. I can perceive no 
adequate reason why ignorance of these languages should be an 
insuperable bar to the literary honors of the institution, however 
highly the candidate might be distinguished in all the other de- 
partments of literature and science. 

The educatien of every citizen should be adapted to the pur- 
suits of his future life. To those who are designed for the learn- 
ed professions, or for employments strictly literary or scientific, 
a knowledge of the classical languages of antiquity is highly ap- 
propriate, if not absolutely necessary. But those who are des- 
tined to follow mercantile or mechanical pursuits, can employ 
the years devoted to education much more profitably than in ac- 
quiring a knowledge of the dead languages. 

The principal consideration which recommends the proposed 
change to your favorable notice, will be found in the. fact, that 
under the existing regulations, parents who design their sons for 
mercantile or mechanical pursuits, will not give them a college 
education. However anxious to give them a liberal education 
in all other respects, they are unwilling to expend threv or four 
8 



58 South Carolina College. 

years in what they regard as unprofitable studies, to prepare 
them for obtaining such an education. The consequence is, that 
these highly important classes of the community usually receive 
no other education than what they obtain in the primary schools. 



Reps, and Res. of 1836,^. 127 and 128. 
248. Various appropriations. 



Reps, and Res. of 1836, p. 147. 

249. Resolved. That the Legislature will not, in future, grant any 
new charter or Act of incorporation, or any extension of a char- 
ter or an Act of incorporation previously granted, unless the ap- 
plicant or applicants for the same shall have first given three 
months public notice, in one or more of the newspapers of this 
State, in such districts or parishes where newspapers are published, 
and where no newspapers are published, at one or move public 
place, of his or their intention to make such application, and 
shall submit with the same such satisfactory evidence that such 
notice had been given. 



From Gov. McDuffies Message, 1836. 

250. No constitutional charter, however wise its provisions, can 
give freedom to a people. "We must have free men before we 
can have a free government ; and we cannot be too deeply im- 
pressed with the conviction that the essential qualifications of a 
freeman, are intelligence to comprehend his rights and interests, 
with the spirit and the military skill which are necessary to de- 
fend them. The fatal experience of but too many nations and 
communities around us. conclusively demonstrates, that 'where 
the great body of the people are destitute of these qualifications, 
every attempt at self-government must end in some new form of 
despotism. In my opinion, our systems of school instruction 
should be made to assume a more practical character, having a 
more direct reference to the business and the duties of active life. 
The common reproach against a classical education, that it tends 
to disqualify our young men from performing these duties, is not 
without some foundation. It is not uncommon to meet with 
scholars, well versed in the systems of ancient polytheism, in the 
fables of the ancient poets, and in the scarcely less fabulous 
narratives of the ancient historians, who have scarcely a smat- 
tering of the history and constitutions of their own country. 



South Carolina College. 59 

The effect produced on the minds of young men by a too exclu- 
sive attention to such a course of reading, in our Schools and 
Colleges, is similar to that which is produced on the minds of 
young females, by reading sentimental novels. It introduces 
them into a world of fancy entirely different, in all respects, from 
that in which they are destined to act a part, and evidently tends 
to disqualify them from acting that part, amidst the rugged re- 
alities of life. To counteract this tendency, a concise popular 
history of our own country, written in a pure and simple style, 
and a clear exposition of the great fundamental principles of our 
system of Government, should be introduced into all our Gram- 
mar Schools. For the purpose of effecting this desirable result, 
means should first be adopted for obtaining these works, and to 
secure their introduction into our Schools, it should be provided 
in the regulations of the College, that no young man should 
enter the Sophomore Class, who could not stand an examination 
on the historical narrative, nor the Senior Class, who could not 
stand an examination on the political exposition. 

With the same view of giving a more practical bearing to our 
system of popular instruction, I suggest the expediency of estab- 
lishing in our College, a Professorship of Civil and Military 
Engineering. The works of Internal Improvement which are 
now in progress, and will probably continue to be projected for 
many years to come, in South Carolina and the neighboring 
States, will require the services of a great number of Civil Engi- 
neers ; and it is in all respects desirable that we should have 
citizens of our own well qualified in this highly important de- 
partment, whose services we can at all times command. So great 
is the demand for this kind of service all over the Union, and the 
rate of compensation is becoming so extravagantly high, that as a 
measure of economy alone, the establishment of the proposed 
Professorship, would be well worthy of consideration. 

The department of Military Engineering will of course be 
made to include instruction in the use of Artillery, and to this 
may be usefully added, the practical instruction of the young 
men, at certain hours, in the elements of Infantry tactics. My ob- 
servation and reflection, during the present year, have confirmed 
the opinion I expressed in my last annual message, as to the ex- 
pediency of combining in our general system of school instruc- 
tion, the use of arms, and the elements of military tactics, with 
the common branches of education. There is^o other mode, in 
my opinion, by which such important results *an be produced, 
with so small an expenditure of time and money. Indeed, I 
have great doubts whether it be not the only practicable mode in 
which the elementary principles of military movements can be 
scientifically imparted to the great body of our citizens. It will 
supply the great desideratum now experienced in effectually 
training the militia — competent officers to command and instruct 
the militia companies — and I feel a perfect assurance that if 
generally pursued in our schools, the very next generation that 



60 South Carolina Colli 

comes upon the stage of active life, will be an army of citizen 
soldier.-, better qualified bo defend their rights, than any stand- 
ing army in the world, after a peace of ten years duration. I 
suggest, therefore, that the young men of the College be organ- 
ized into one or two corps of Cadets, by Law, or by the regula- 
tions of the institution, and though permitted to eleel their own 
officers, that they hi' required to devote certain hours to the ex- 
ercise of drilling; under the superintendence of the Military 
Professor, who should be required to act as their instructor. The 
establishment of sue h a system in the College would, upon very 
obvious principles, cause it to be extended to the Grammar 
Schools; as every young man, in preparing for College, would 
naturally desire to qualify himself, not only for performing his 
military exercises, hut for aspiring to the honor of a military 
command. In one of the most distinguished Grammar Schools 
of the State, a company of Cadets was formed, almost under 
my own eye. and while their improvement in tact i riking 

to every observer, the intelligent gentleman at the head of the 
institution assured me, that he derived great advantage in its 
government, from the manliness and sen.se of honor imparted to 
the young men, by the change in their mode of recreation. 

I also recommend the establishment of a Professorship of 
Modern Languages, the want of which has been seriously felt 
ever since the establishment of the College. I believe there are 
very few graduates of the institution, who have not had occ 
to deplore the defect in their education, which has resulted from 
the absence of such a Professorship. In the present state of 
science, and of social and commercial intercourse, a knowledge 
of the modern languages is scarcely less important than that of 
the ancient, A great many of the most scientific and literary 
works now extant, are written in foreign lai._ i tnd having 
no English translations, are sealed books to those who are igno- 
rant of the languages in which they are written. It is an object 
of the first importance, to have a class of well educated native 
merchants, capable of conducting our immense and increasing 
foreign commerce : who will save to the State the large per cent- 
age which the Northern merchants receive as a commission for 
exchanging our productions for those of other countries. Cir- 
cumstances are now highly favorable to the accomplishment of 
this patriotic purpose. Let us, then, provide for our young men 
the means of becoming accomplished merchants : and not the 
least important Hcomplishment, is a knowledge of the Continen- 
tal languages, and particularly the French. 

These two additional Professorships will complete the literary 
organization of our College, and enable our youth to obtain so 
complete an education at home, that they will no longer have 
a motive for going to the Northern Colleges. I need not add, 
that this is an object of the utmost importance, in the present 
state of public opinion in the United States, relative to our do- 
mestic institutions. 



South Carolina College. 61 

The state of the college discipline is now excellent, and the 
conduct of the students for the present year has, with a few ex- 
ceptions, been highly exemplary. Most of the irregularities 
that have occurred, have been traced to the shops where wines 
and ardent spirits are retailed in the town of Columbia — and it 
has been found impossible to break up entirely, the communica- 
tion between them and the young men of the college. These 
wretched haunts of dissipation and intemperance do more to 
mar the prosperity of the institution, than all the other causes 
united. They thus become nuisances to the whole State, and 
ought, in my opinion, to be abated by its authority. The evil is 
not at all diminished by the system of licensing. The revenue 
derived from it is but a poor compensation for the privilege of 
diffusing the elements of moral pestilence amongst those who 
are to be the future rulers and legislators of the State. 

The flourishing condition of the College must be eminently 
gratifying to every patriotic citizen in the State, of every de- 
nomination, religious or political. And however obvious the truth, 
we cannot too habitually impress it upon our minds, that the 
usefulness of this institution, so intimately connected with the 
character of the State, and the welfare of the generations that 
are to follow us, will greatly depend upon the degree in which 
the spirit of party, religious and political, shall be excluded from 
its government. Let this, at least, be a temple dedicated exclu- 
sively to science and literature, where all the citizens of the 
State can mingle their devotions in harmony and peace. 

The number of students has so greatly increased since the 
new organization, that they cannot even now be tolerably accom- 
modated in the rooms provided for them ; and when we look for- 
ward to the probable increase, at the commencement of the en- 
suing year, it is evident that the existing means of accommoda- 
tion will be wholly insufficient. The erection of an additional 
edifice for this purpose, therefore, has become a measure not 
only of expediency, but of absolute necessity ; and I recom- 
mend that the necessary appropriation be made, as soon as the 
proper estimates shall be obtained. 

The College Library also requires a very considerable enlarge- 
ment, to make it correspond with the character of the institution ; 
and I suggest the propriety of making an appropriation of a few 
thousand dollars for this purpose. As I propose to visit Europe 
during the ensuing year, it will give me great pleasure to exe- 
cute any commission with which I may be charged in accomplish- 
ing this object. 

I cannot conclude this interesting topic, without earnestly 
commending the College to your enlightened patronage and fos- 
tering care, as the guardians of the rising generation. 



62 South Carolina College. 

D'orn Gov. Butler's Message. 1537. 

251. The College is justly an object of pride to the State. If 
its liberal and enlightened friends and projectors could see its 
fruits, they would have abundant cause of satisfaction and grati- 
fication. Every citizen in the State may justly regard it as part 
of his property. If he has not received any immediate advan- 
tage himself, his son may. The destiny of the State may be 
said to depend on this institution. The young men who are in 
it. should be made to understand and believe that the public 
take all interest in them. Going from home with their mothers 
prayers and their father's hopes for them, they should consider 
it the greatest calamity that they could inflict, to disregard and 
disappoint them. But. beyond these feelings and relations to 
their parents, they should regard themselves as the property of 
the republic, and should cultivate a noble maxim of some dis- 
tinguished ancient. •■ It is not only necessary that I should 
live, but it is necessary that I should do my duty." 

The Legislature should not only give its substantial aid to 
this institution, but should make every demonstration of respect 
in its public exhibitions. It is desirable that the Trustees and 
the public should give more of their time and attention to the 
examination of the students, than they have hitherto found it 
convenient to do. Its public spirited and patriotic President. 
and its learned Professors, are now doing their duty in a way to 
.give general satisfaction. By the late afflicting dispensation of 
God, by which so many of the unfortunate were consigned to 
the abyss of waters, this institution has been deprived of one of 
its most able and zealous officers. There are now one hundred 
and fifty-foul- students in the College. It is a favorable augury 
of our rising fortunes, that notwithstanding the difficulties and 
embarrassments of the times, this institution is increasing in 
numbers, reputation and usefulness. 

Our youth are taught there. Intellectual and 3Ioral Philoso- 
phy. Logic and Belles Lettres. History and Political Economy, 
Greek and Koman Literature, Mathematics. Mechanical Philos- 
ophy and Astronomy. Chemistry. Mineralogy and Geology. Sa- 
cred Literature and the Evidences of Christianity. I do not 
profess sufficient knowledge to speak with any degree of confi- 
dence in regard to the circle of studies which is necessary to 
complete a course of education in such an institution, but of 
this my experience has satisfied me. that that knowledge is gen- 
erally the most useful, which is directly available — and to be so. 
that it must be adapted to the wants of society, and to the state 
and condition of the country. In reference to this view, it 
might be well to consider the propriety of directing the Board 
of Trustees of the College to establish a Professorship of Mod- 
ern Languages, and a Professorship of Civil and Military Engi- 
neering. Holding a school fit for educating Civil Engineers, 
indispensable, both to the present and probable wants of the State, 
I think it my duty to recommend it. TTe need it for our im- 
provement in peace, and defence in war, 



South Carolina College. 63 



From Gov. Butler's Message, 1838. 

252. The affairs of the College are in a condition to fulfil the 
best wishes of its friends. This institution has exercised a vast 
influence over the character of the State, and I believe is des- 
tined to be its palladium of safety, amidst the popular commo- 
tions which too frequently agitate all free States. The knowl- 
edge acquired, and the friendships contracted here, will be 
stronger than popular violence. Those who have formed good 
opinions of each other, when they were associated together in 
the intimacy of unreserved communication, will retain and cul- 
tivate a spirit of liberality and forgiveness, even in the heats of 
political hostility. Our wise and prudent ancestors could not 
have devised a more noble and effectual means of perpetuating 
their glorious influence over the destinies of their country, than 
by the establishment of an institution of literature and science, 
under the fostering care of the State, in which their precepts 
would be valued, and their examples appreciated This institu- 
tion should be a primary object of State policy and popular pride. 
It is the institution of the people, and for the people. It is there 
they must acquire the intelligence to govern themselves. The 
Legislature should not hesitate to make any appropriation which 
the interests of the College may require. The number of stu- 
dents is rapidly increasing, and is now far beyond any former 
precedent. The present number is about 170, and it will proba- 
bly be necessary, before long, to make a still further addition to 
the buildings, for their comfortable accommodation. The Libra- 
ry, though respectable, cannot be compared with several attached 
to other Universities in the United States. Great scholars and 
erudite writers must have access to full libraries, to make their 
labors useful, and their productions accurate. The State should 
take a pride in affording this facility to them, by having a libra- 
ry which will give it an interest in the estimation of posterity, 
and in the eyes of intelligent foreigners. With a view of at- 
taining this end, I beg leave to recommend to the Legislature, 
an annual appropriation, for the purchase of books for the Col- 
lege Library. 



Reps, and Res. of 1838,^?. 128. 

253. $2000, and surplus of tuition fund, annually appropria- 
ted to increase of Library. 



Reps, and Res. of 1838, p. 160. 
254. Dr. Cooper's Library. 



64 South Carolina College. 

Reps, and Res, >>f 1839,jj 
255. Dr. Coopers Library. 



From Got: Noble?* Message, 1839. 

It affords me unfeigned pleasure to announce to you. 
that the College continues to answer the high expectations of the 
State. It is rapidly advancing in a career of prosperity and 
usefulness, which must redound to the lasting benefit of the 
country. It steadily increases in numbers, although the stand- 
ard of admission is higher than formerly. I ardently recom- 
mend this noble institution to your paternal and fostering care. 
The State can only expect to maintain its wonted high character, 
by an enlightened population, well grounded in solid learning, 
and a lofty moral elevation. 



From Gov. Henegarts Message, 1840. 

•257. The College is in a most prosperous condition, and is 
fully entitled to your fostering care and protection. The very 
generous and liberal spirit which the Legislature has always 
manifested towards it. is highly creditable to our people. It is 
with pride I say that the reasonable appeals of those to whom 
is entrusted its immediate control, have never been made in vain. 
No false notions of economy have prevented those appropria- 
tions which were calculated to increase its usefulness, but they 
have always been made with promptitude and liberality. 



Reps, and Res. of IS 40. p. 97. 
258. Keport as to College Commencement. 



Reps, and Res. of 1841,;?. 126. 
259. American Archives loaned to College Library. 



South Carolina College. 65 

From Gov. Richardso)i's Message, 1841. 

260. I regret to communicate to you the resignation of the 
late President of our College, whose sphere of usefulness, in 
that high and dignified station, has been occupied with such de- 
cided and distinguished benefit to the institution, and to the 
State. Under his wise and judicious control, its literary char- 
acter has not only been more than fully sustained, both in the 
acquirements of the students and the ability of the Professors, 
but its morals have at the same time advanced to a state of pu- 
rity and improvement, which it is believed has never been sur- 
passed, in the experience of this or any other seminary. Deep- 
ly regretting the loss, as well as the circumstances which have 
deprived us of his services, we may still confidently hope that 
his character and example are so indelibly impressed upon the 
institution, and its successive generations of youth, that its lin- 
gering influences will continue to guide and to actuate it, in the 
same honorable course of virtue and success. I need not, I trust, 
recommend to your continued favor and patronage, an institu- 
tion, whose enlightened contributions have extended to every 
pursuit and avocation — every art and science, as cultivated in 
our State — and whose influences have been diffused through all 
the walks and vocations of life, occupying every station in soci- 
ety, pervading every profession, and adorning the Bench, the 
Bar, the Pulpit, and our Legislative councils. The moral weight 
and influence which South Carolina has so long exercised, 
through the talents and usefulness of her statesmen, on the af- 
fairs of this Union, and which this institution has so largely con- 
tributed to preserve, is of itself an overruling inducement to 
foster and improve it. 



From Gov. Richardson 's Message, 1842. 

261. Contrasted with these just causes of dissatisfaction, as to 
the benefits and application of the Free School fund, we may 
contemplate with a pride and gratification proportionate to its 
eminent usefulness and success, the continued results of the lib- 
eral and enlightened patronage bestowed upon our College. The 
most munificent of all our State endowments — the most honora- 
ble of all its benefactions — the most useful of all its institu- 
tions — the most imperishable monument of its wisdom and lib- 
erality — its continued and uninterrupted career of success and 
prosperity, even amidst the unusual disadvantages of the pres- 
ent year, cannot but be a source of the most heartfelt gratifica- 
tion to its official patrons. Adding its annual tribute of learn- 
ing to the general intelligence of the State — the perennial source 
of its literature, its erudition and its eloquence — contributing 
its successive generations of enlightened youth, to commence 
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66 SorfTH Carolina College 

their ardent career of usefulness and of honor, and to occupy their 
dis:izg~iisiiri -.:'. :- in ; ::ir.~ — — t '_:~- v.-: irisn. :■: i-zv... Ln 
the unabated prosperity which it manifests, in the number, the 
morals and the acquirements of its students, and in the zeaL 
erudition and judicious management of its faculty. Receiving 
an amount less than half of the annual endowment bestowed 
on Free Schools, the benefits of a situ -7 - eai the attainments 
■::' single class, the acquirements of one only ::" its ripe schol- 
ar? the fruit of a single one of those great minds, whose ener- 
gies it has developed, would not only compensate for all the pat- 
ronage which has hitherto been extended to it. but is immeasu- 
rably more valuable to the State than the results of all her 
other benefactions to advance the progress of education. Un^ 
der the recent bereavement of a venerated head, contending 
with all the embarrassments of a pro tempore appointment of its 
i ing officer — an appointment most heavily imposing the ar- 
1^:15 rrsr :n5i:ili::T/5 ;£ :lf \-L.~ —r.'ir. :: ; ::rrrsi i^iing 
dignity and authority : it is a subject of joyful surprise and 
congratulation, :'_:-.: its riairs have been so ably and satisfacto- 



262. Various books transferred to College Library. 



Rips r. ::. Rn :-" IS^S. p U> 
263. #400 to furnish two rooms for College Library. 



py-. Go: H. "i Mi.ssr^-i. l ; ^i 

- 

264 I '_ - fh st duty of a government, after providing for the 
security of ite Mmstatoents. istc :ike proper measures for their 
eiijarliz Tie :~^ri:s :ley ieri^e fri— faoili:arl^g z-onmerce. 
by dicing canals, clearing out rivers, constructing roads and 
opening new channels of intercourse, are great, but they sink into 
insignificance, in comparison with the vast importance of pour- 
ing out upon them in every direction, copious streams of knowl- 
edge : expanding their intellects, elevating and pnrifving their 
morals, and training them up to a high and noble east of thought 
Under a government like ours, where no aristocracy of birth or 
wealth is tolerated, or can ever take root, the only hope we can 
have of the harmonious action or lasting duration of our insti- 
tutions, is by resting them on the solid foundation of a people 



South Carolina College. 67 

imbued with lofty sentiments, and deeply versed in all the lore 
of learning ; who will be capable of comprehending all the bles- 
sings they confer, watchful of distant danger, and prepared to 
meet and overcome it, not less by power of intellect, than by 
force of arms. Every dollar which can be spared from the ab- 
solute wants of the State, should be first offered to this great 
cause. Here indeed a liberal expenditure enriches and adorns, 
while a narrow economy impoverishes and degrades. It is to 
be feared that education has been stationary in this State, if it 
has not retrogaded, during the last quarter of a century. The 
College, founded and sustained by the wise munificence of the 
State, has done, and continues to do, more than was expected of 
it. But the academies have not kept pace. There are compara- 
tively few in the country, where young men can be well prepared 
to enter the higher classes. The consequence is, that many are 
yet sent abroad to inferior institutions, and return home with 
educations less complete, and without the advantage of that in- 
timate association with the youth of every section of the State, 
which can only be formed here, and which is of such lasting ad- 
vantage to themselves and to the country. I recommend to your 
serious consideration, the propriety of establishing, at some 
healthy and central spot in each district, an academy, endowed 
in the same manner as the College. The sparseness of our pop- 
ulation, and the want of concentrated wealth in the country, will 
postpone for an indefinite period, such establishments by the peo- 
ple themselves. And in such a matter, the loss of time is abso- 
lutely fatal. If the means of the State will not permit such an 
expenditure, in addition to that already incurred for purposes 
of education, I submit to you the expediency, of diverting the 
present Free School fund to that object. The Free School Sys- 
tem has failed. This fact has been announced by several of my 
predecessors, and there is carcely an intelligent person in the 
State, who doubts that its benefits are perfectly insignificant, in 
comparison with the expenditure. Its failure is owing to the 
fact, that it does not suit our people or our government, and it 
can never be remedied. The paupers, for whose children it is 
intended, but slightly appreciate the advantages of education ; 
their pride revolts at the idea of sending their children to school 
as "poor scholars" and besides, they need them at home to work. 
These sentiments and wants can, in the main, only be counter- 
vailed by force. In other countries where similar systems ex- 
ist, force is liberally applied. It is contrary to the principles of 
our institutions to apply it here, and the Free School System is 
a failure. The sum which is annually appropriated for the sup- 
port of Free Schools, if equally divided for one year among the 
twenty-eight districts of tl* State, giving two portions to Charles- 
ton district, will be sufficient to build in each a good academy. 
If, thereafter, one thousand dollars a year was appropriated to 
each academy, a teacher of the highest qualifications might be 
secured for every one, and a saving of about eight thousand dol- 



68 South Carolina College. 

lars per annum effected by the State. If, in addition to this 
salary, the profits of his school were also given to the teacher, 
the rates of tuition could be reduced, to the advantage of the 
tax-payers, and he might be required to instruct, free of charge, 
such poor scholars as should be sent to him. The details of 
such a system cannot be dwelt on here. The immense advanta- 
ges of it over the present one, are obvious, at a glance. The op- 
portunity of giving a thorough academical education to his 
children, would be placed in the hands of every parent of ordi- 
nary means, while such of the poor as really desired to educate 
theirs, might still have it in their power. The common schools 
would be vastly improved, under the superintendence of those 
who had passed through these academies, while the standard of 
education would be immensely elevated throughout the State, 
and the College receive a new impulse in the dispensation of its 
incalculable blessings. Its professorships could always be read- 
ily and ably supplied from among the accomplished teachers the 
academies would develope, and its graduates of high attainments 
but slender means, would, in turn, find useful and profitable em- 
ployment in taking charge of the academies, instead of crowd- 
ing, as they now usually do, the other professions. In short, 
under such a system, it would be scarcely possible for any young 
man to grow up in our State in ignorance and idleness, or fail 
in obtaining a respectable settlement at home, if he possessed 
energy and worth. Should it not meet your approbation, and 
the Free School System be continued, I renew the recommenda- 
tion of my immediate predecessor, for the appointment of a su- 
perintendent of these schools. 



From Gov. Hammond's Message, 1844. 

265. You have liberally and wisely provided for the education 
of the more wealthy, by establishing a College, which has done, 
and continues to do, more for the State, than every other corpo- 
ration put together, within her limits ; and you bestow annually 
a large sum for the mental improvement of the poor, which I 
wish I could say produced corresponding benefits. 



Reps, and Res. of 1844,^. 165. 

266. The Committee on education, to whom was referred so 
much of the Governor's Message No. 2, as relates to the estab- 
lishment of a Professorship of Greek Literature in the College, 
respectfully report : 

That they have considered the same. It would be a work of 
supererogation for your committee, at this time, to enlarge upon 



South Carolina College. 69 

• 
the numerous advantages attendant on a liberal and complete 
classical education, or to urge upon the Legislature of South 
Carolina such a patronage of her College, as to place that insti- 
tutios on terms of honorable competition with similar ones 
throughout the Union. The learned languages are mingled 
with the literature of every civilized people ; their construction 
and graces have imparted strength and elegance to modern 
tongues of the rudest original. The principles of science, of 
philosophy and government, have been generalized and expand- 
ed over many nations, by the potent influence of those langua- 
ges, which, having no living speech or separate existence, are the 
common inheritance of all the learned, and the channels of uni- 
versal truth. 

No human system of education can so elevate the character, 
inspire correct sentiments of honor and patriotism, or refine the 
taste of youth, as that which is based upon profound and critical 
classical attainments. As exercises of the mind, they give heal- 
thy vigor, and enrich it with graceful accomplishment. In our 
country, it is to be regretted that these studies have been, per- 
haps, too much sacrificed to the sterner duties and more exact- 
ing necessities of life. For a long time past, it has been a sub- 
ject of anxious solicitude with the dignified and enlightened 
gentlemen who compose the Board of Trustees of the South Car- 
olina College, to supply the want of higher instruction than has 
hitherto been furnished, and to elevate the standard of classical 
education. At present, there is but one Professor engaged in 
this department, and while he is overtasked, the pupils are insuf- 
ficiently taught. The assistance which was formerly derived 
from tutors was found inadequate, while the low rate of their 
compensation, and the absence of the dignity of Professorship, 
were calculated to degrade the importance of their instructions. 

It was therefore deemed judicious to abolish the tutorships, 
and the eminent gentlemen who compose the faculty, have most 
assiduously endeavored to supply the want of the requisite tui- 
tion. They merit much commendation for their laudable efforts, 
yet the necessity of some permanent provision for supplying 
adequate means of instruction to the College classes, has been 
evinced by the improper exactions thereby imposed on their 
time and attention, without corresponding success. The Trus- 
tees have, therefore, proposed, that instead of the two tutorships 
they constitute one additional Professorship, and divide the 
chair of Greek and Roman literature into two distinct depart- 
ments. In adopting this measure, they have the example of 
most of the distinguished institutions in Europe and America. 
They have the satisfaction of calling on the generosity of the 
Legislature for comparatively a small appropriation. The sala- 
ry of the Professor would require the sum of $2,500, which is 
quite an inconsiderable amount to secure the advantages which 
would doubtless accrue to the State at large. It has been sug- 
gested to your committee, that the sum of $2,000, which has 
heretofore been expended in the support of the tutors, but 



70 South Carolina College. 

which it is desirable should be used for sustaining and enlarg- 
ing the Library, might be applied to the support of the pro- 
posed Professorship. Should this be done, the only further ex- 
pense to the State would be $500 annually, and this important 
measure would be secured. Your committee, however, are of 
opinion, that this diversion of the Library fund would not be 
necessary, and therefore recommend that the annual sum of 
$2,500 be appropriated for the support of the Professor of 
Greek Literature in the South Carolina College. 



Heps, and Res. of 1845,^. 79. 
267. Appropriations since 1801. 



Reps, and Res. of 1845, p. 147. 

268. Trustees to appoint a committee to attend the regular 
examinations of all the classes. 



From Gov. Aiken 1 s Message, 1845. 

269. The condition of the South Carolina College must at all 
times engage the most earnest consideration of the Legislature. 
In it are centered, more than any other branch or department of 
her institutions, the hopes and destinies of South Carolina ; 
there, are being raised up, the future Legislators, high Officers 
and Statesmen, who are to guide her career to honor or to ruin. 
The rightful education of the minds and hearts of these future 
rulers of the land, is a trust of high responsibility. You have 
assumed its direction. It demands in the instructors the high- 
est moral and mental capacities, and the most extensive erudi- 
tion. It not less requires from them a proper training of the 
pupils — a discipline to regular habits of morals and study — a > 
thirst of knowledge, a love of public virtue, and conformity in 
habits and manners to the highest standards. Complaints ex- 
ist of negligence of duties, and of other causes, which are im- 
pairing the usefulness of the institution. I am not prepared to 
say that there is any just reason for them, but it is sufficient that 
the public anxiety is awakened, upon a subject of vital impor- 
tance to individual happiness and public welfare, to make it my 
duty to invite your special attention to the institution. If all 
is right, justice will be done to the faculty, by dispersing the 
fears and misgivings of the friends of the institution. If any 
thing is wrong, the great interests of the State require that a 



South Carolina College. 71 

remedy be speedily and effectually applied. The liberal support 
which has been wisely, and with unwavering constancy, extend- 
ed by the State to this institution, has redounded in a thousand 
ways, to her honor and advantage. The intelligence of her peo- 
ple has been vastly increased, their condition improved, and her 
own character elevated, by the eloquence, wisdom and ability of 
her citizens educated here, and filling the high stations of the 
country. She cannot cherish and sustain it with a too vigilant 
and affectionate interest. 



From Gov. Aiken' ] s Message, 1846. 

270.* I am rejoiced to have it in my power to state, that one 
of the favorite and cherished objects of the Legislature, the South 
Carolina College, which has sent forth into every portion of the 
State so many well instructed citizens, to add to her renown and 
sustain her high reputation, is in as flourishing a condition as 
its warmest friends could desire. The administration of its ac- 
complished President, aided and sustained by the combined ef- 
forts of the very learned faculty with which he is associated, has 
been distinguished by the most gratifying results, and we may 
well entertain the hope, that a few years only will be necessary, 
with a wise and judicious expenditure on your part, to place it 
among the first class, in the rank of those literary institutions 
which enrich and adorn our country. The munificent liberality 
of a distinguished citizen of our State, has recently done much 
for this institution, by the establishment of a scholarship for the 
benefit of a class of young men who might otherwise never be 
able to obtain the advantages of a collegiate education ; and 
were any thing but the consciousness of a noble act necessary, 
his reward will be found in the gratitude of those to be benefit- 
ted by his generosity, and the thanks of the whole State. While 
upon the subject of the College, I would respectfully suggest 
that a new Professorship, of Geology and Agriculture, be crea- 
ted, as a most desirable and important addition to those already 
established, thereby affording information on subjects closely 
connected with the industry and pursuits of a large portion of 
our people. 



Reps, and Res. of 1846,^?. 120. 

27 1 . The committee on the College, Education and Religion, 
to whom was referred so much of the Governor's Message as re- 
lates to the South Carolina College, beg leave to report, that the 
condition of the College is highly prosperous and satisfactory. 

The number of students is one hundred and sixty tour, inde- 
pendent of the graduating class, which numbered 31, to wit : 



72 South Carolina College. 

The Senior class 41 

" Junior class 43 

" Sophomore class- _. 66 

" Freshman class 14 

It is highly gratifying to perceive the lively affection for this 
institution, which is retained by its worthy alumni, in all sec- 
tions of the State, and has been indicated in a variety of ways. 

Recently, additions have been made to the Library, by dona- 
tions from Gen. James H. Adams and Col. J. L. Manning. The 
last named gentlemen has also been munificent in endowing a 
Scholarship in the College; the details of his plan to be arrang- 
ed hereafter, by himself, in conference with the President of the 
College. For this purpose, the sum of five thousand dollars, 
($5,000) at present invested in a bond, with one year's interest 
($350) paid in advance, has been placed subject to the order of 
the Board of Trustees. 



From Gov. Johnson 1 s Message, 1847. 



272. In the increasing usefulness and growing prosperity of 
the South Carolina College, the State is reaping the full fruits 
of the liberal patronage which she has heretofore bestowed upon 
that institution. It ranks, now, amongst the most useful asylums 
of learning in the Southern portion of the Union, and under 
its present wise and prudent and energetic government, it bids 
fair to take the lead of all. It is only the few who have lived 
like myself in times preceding the organization of this institu- 
tion, who can realize the full benefits which have resulted from 
it. Before, the only organs of imparting science and learning 
within the State, were a few grammar schools, widely dispersed, 
in which the ancient classics were principally taught, with which 
were occasionally united a few of the elementary branches of the 
exact sciences ; a higher grade of mental culture was reserved 
for the very few who had the means of going to some of the 
Northern or foreign colleges, to complete their education ; and 
mental darkness pervaded the land. But under the fostering 
influence of this institution, the lights of literature and the sci- 
ences have penetrated the recesses of the mountains, the islets 
of the sea-coast, and spread over the whole intermediate space. 
The number of students is now something like four fold what it 
was a few years ago, and this addition would seem to indicate 
the necessity of an addition to the number of Professors, and 
necessarily enlarged accommodations for the students. I will 
not anticipate what the Board of Trustees, whose peculiar duty 
and province it is to advise on this subject, may suggest. But 
I will not allow myself to question, that whatever appropriations 
may be necessary to sustain and promote this invaluable insti- 
tution, will not be withheld. 



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MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS, 
CONNECTED WITH THE COLLEGE. 



Reps, and Res. of 1846,jp. 197. 
273. ORDER OF PROCESSION 

AT THE 

COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT. 

The Procession will be formed at 10 o'clock, A. M. on Mon- 
day December, in front of the State House, under the 
direction of who will act as Marshal of the day. 
It will then move to the College Chapel, in the following order : 
Cadets of the Military Academy. 
Students of the Freshman class. 
Students of the Sophomore Class. 
Students of the Junior Class, 
The Graduating Class. 
Former Graduates of the College. 
Citizens generally. 
Officers and Students of the Theological Seminary. 
The Reverend Clergy. 
Officers of the State, Civil and Military. 
The House of Representatives, with the Speaker, attended by 
its Officers. 
The Senate, with the President, attended by its Officers. 
The Committee appointed by the House. 
The Committee appointed by the Senate. 
The Professors of the Institution. 
The Superintendents and other Officers of the Military 
Academies. 
The Trustees of the College, and the Board of Visitors of the 
Military Academies. 
The Governor and Suite, and Lieut. Governor of the State. 

The President of the College. 
When the Procession arrives at the College Chapel, it will 
open to the right and left, forming two lines fronting each other. 
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74 South Carolina College. 

The rear will then close and march Into the Chapel, the lines 
closing as the rear advances, until the whole Procession shall 
have entered in inverted order 



Report of Committee in 1836, as to Expenses. 

274. The Trustees of the South Carolina College, deeply anx- 
ious for the welfare of this institution, deem it their duty to call 
the attention of parents and guardians to the absolute necessity 
of restraining the expenditures of students sent to the College, 
within a reasonable limit. For this purpose, they have appoint- 
ed the undersigned a committee to ascertain what are the neces- 
sary expenses of a student during the collegiate year, and to re- 
port the result to the public, for the information all who are in- 
terested in this matter. The committee have performed that 
duty with great care, and have ascertained that the sum of fifty 
dollars is sufficient to defray the expense of outfit, and to estab- 
lish a student comfortably in his quarters. This expenditure 
is for beds, bedding and room furniture of every description, and 
being for permanent articles, is not an annual expense. The 
committee have ascertained that the sum of 8350 is amply suf- 
ficient to defray all the annual expenses, independent of the pur- 
chase of such books as the collegiate course may require. This 
sum of S3 50 will provide for the expense of tuition, boarding, 
clothing, fire-wood, and all incidental expenses, and includes an 
allowance for pocket money during the college year. 

Assuming that there are annually, as is now the case, one hun- 
dred and twenty students in College, with fifty dollars each in 
his pocket, this will throw six thousand dollars among them, be- 
yond what is essentially necessary to their comfort or conveni- 
ence. - 

Young gentlemen are sent to College for the purpose of study. 
and not for pleasure. They are sent to complete their educa- 
tion, and to qualify themselves for the discharge of the duties 
of life. How far this object is likely to be defeated by an un- 
limited supply of funds, must, upon slight consideration, be ap- 
parent to all. 

Thrown into the heart of a large town, a young man must 
have very fixed principles, and great self-control, who is able to 
resist the allurements of pleasure, with his pockets full of gold, 
and an unlimited means of commanding every thing which the 
most unbridled appetites can desire. College discipline will in 
vain be exerted to restrain him. whom the cruel kindness or in- 
considerate indulgence of his parent has thus exposed to so se- 
vere a trial. The parent who. in the fearful struggle between 
pleasure and duty, thus takes sides with the former against his 
child, is laying the sure foundation of bitter and unavailing re- 
gret on his part, and of blasted health, corrupted morals, and 



South Carolina College. 75 

"blighted prospects for the object of his anxious cares. "Lead 
us not into temptation," is a heaven-taught prayer, and he that 
stands most sure, needs often to repeat it. 

The committee are thus earnest in their appeal, because the 
history of this College, and of every other, bears ample testimo- 
ny to the fatal effect of unlimited indulgence in the command 
of money ; and because the evil consequences are not confined 
to the unfortunate victim of false indulgence, but spread their 
corrupting influence over all around him. 

The committee repeat the assurance, that the estimate of ex- 
penses has been made with anxious care, and after full inquiry, 
and that any allowance which shall go beyond it, is calculated to 
produce injury both to the student and the College. 

In conclusion, they make a most solemn appeal to parents and 
guardians, not to pay any account contracted beyond this esti- 
mate ; particularly to grog shops, or for other superfluous ex- 
penditures. P. M. BUTLER, 

W. F. DESAUSSURE, 
D. J. M'CORD. 

275 EXPENSES, PER SESSION, IN 1547. 

To be paid into College Treasury. 

For Tuition, room rent and use of Library, $50 00 
" Board, $2 50 per week, 100 00 

" Fuel, 12 00 

$162 00 



Incidental expenses. 

For Text Books, for whole course of 4 years, $45 00 

" Paper, Pens, Ink, &c. 10 00 

" Lights, 16 00 

« Furniture 20 00 



For 4 years, $91 00 

One fourth of which, for 1 year, is $22 75 



Total of College expenses, per session, $184 75 



Early Legislation as to Education. 

276. In A. A. 8th April, 1710, 2d Cooper, p. 343. An Act 
for the founding and erecting of a free school, for the use of the 
inhabitants of South Carolina. Preamble recites, that it is ne- 
cessary that a free school be erected for the instruction of the 
youth of this province, in grammar and other arts and sciences, 
and useful learning, and also in the principles of the Christian 



76 South Carolina College. 

Religion : and that several well disposed and charitable persons 
had given several sums of money for the purpose. 

Sec. 1. Appoints the Governor and fifteen others, (most of 
them the first men in the province.) to be a body, corporation. 
&c. Sec. V. To hold meetings on the second Tuesday in every 
July and February, choose officers, and transact business. X. 
Power to appoint a master of said schools. XI. Said master 
shall be of the Church of England, and to teach the Latin 
and Greek languages, and also the useful parts of the Mathe- 
matics. XII. The Commissioners have power to prescribe rules. 
&c. XIV. Master may appoint an usher, to be approved of by 
the Commissioners. 

277. This A. A. was superceded by A. A. 12th December, 1712, 
2 Cooper. 3S9. which, in general, was the same : appointed dif- 
ferent Commissioners, but Governor again. May elect Commis- 
sioners in room of those dead. &c. To meet third Wednesday 
in March and October, or after: each Commissioner to forfeit 
10s. per day for absence. John Douglass appointed first mas- 
ter. Any person giving £20 current money of this Province, 
may nominate one scholar, to be taught free, for five years. The 
master to have a residence, and to be paid £100 per annum, 
half yearly, out of the public Treasury. Twelve scholars (to 
be named by the Commissioners.) taught free. Por other schol- 
ars, the master received from the guardian or parent, at the rate 
of £4 per annum, current money. If necessary, an usher to be 
appointed by the Commissioners, with a salary not exceeding 
£50. out of the public Treasury, and to be paid 30s. for each 
pay scholar, out of the master's £4. Also a writing master, (to 
be appointed by the Commissioners) to teach •• writing, arithme- 
tic and merchants : accounts, and also the art of navigation and 
surveying, and other useful and practical parts of mathematics, 
with a salary not exceeding £50. out of the public Treasury : 
and from pay scholars, for writing. 30s. per annum : for writing 
and arithmetic. 40s : for writing, arithmetic and merchants : ac- 
counts. 50 : for rent as agreed. (See XXI. and XXII.) The 
vestries in each Parish may choose place for school, and approve 
a master, who shall receive £10 per annum from public Treasury. 
Each parish allowed £12 for building school house. 

278. There was an A. A. 7th June. 1712. 2 Cooper. 376. ap- 
pointing Jno Douglas master of a grammar school in Charles- 
ton : also allows a salary of £16 to Mr. Benjamin Dennis, who 
had been sent over by the recommendation of the Honorable So- 
ciety for the propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts. John 
Douglas, or his successor, to be removed only by the General 
Assembly. 

"Csher appointed under John Douglas. Fees. Greek and 
Latin. £3. Rent as agreed. 

279. This A. A. was repealed by A. A. 9th June. 1733. 3d 
Cooper. 364. for erecting a free school at Childesbury : appoints 
Trustees to take charge of the bounty of James Childes. p. 500. 



South Carolina College. 77 

A. A. 9th April, 1734, recites, that since the A. A. 1712, money 
had depreciated to one-fifth part of its original value, and di- 
rects that the master usher shall be paid " at four hundred per 
centum advance," 3d Cooper, 777. 

280. A. A. 9th April, 1734, 3d Cooper, 378, for founding, 
erecting, governing, ordering and visiting a free school at the 
town of Dorchester, recites that, whereas, by the blessings of 
Almighty God, the youth of this Province are become very nu- 
merous, and their parents so well inclined to have them instruct- 
ed in grammar, and other liberal arts and sciences, and other 
useful learning, and also in the principles of the Christian Re- 
ligion. School in Charleston insufficient, &c. Teacher must 
be able to teach the learned languages, Latin and Greek tongues, 
and to catechise and instruct the youth in the principles of the 
Christian Religion. 

281. And the Legislature, at various times, incorporated 
academies, societies, &c. for the purpose of education ; an ac- 
count of which will be found in Ramsay's history of South Car- 
olina, 2d vol. p. 352. 

282. Winnsborough College — Mount Zion — incorporated, 
1785. 4 Stat. 674. 

283. Charleston College — Incorporated 1785. 4 Stat. 674. 

284. Cambridge College — Incorporated 1785. 4 Stat. 675. 

285. Beaufort College— Incorporated 1795. 5 Stat. 268. 

286. South Carolina College — Incorporated 1801. 5 Stat. 
403. 



From Ramsay 1 s South Carolina, vol. 2, p. 361. 

287. The multiplication of colleges did not answer the end. 
Instead of yielding any more to the partial wishes of sections of 
the State, the Assembly, in the year 1801, took up the business 
on its proper ground, and passed a law for building and endow- 
ing a college at the seat of government, by the name of the 
South Carolina College, under the care of its high responsible 
officers, together with 1 3 others, to be chosen every 4th year by 
the Assembly. This measure was strongly recommended by 
Governor Drayton in his message to the Legislature ; and a re- 
port from Comptroller Hamilton, on the finances of the State, 
proved its ability to meet the expense. The establishment of a 
State College was carried through with unexampled unanimity, 
all parties concurring therein, and ample funds appropriated 
from the public Treasury for erecting all requisite buildings — 
for the purchase of a suitable library — of a complete apparatus 
for philosophical purposes, and for the annual support of a 
President, Professors, and other teachers. The narrow policy 
which prevailed under the royal' government, of confining (he 
choice even of teachers for the free schools, to one sect of Chris- 



78 South Carolina College. 

tians, had been done away by the Constitution. In the true 
spirit of free representative government, persons of every coun- 
try and State, of every sect and party, were equally eligible to 
be teachers in this cherished seminary. The reverend Dr. Max- 
cy, who had with great reputation presided over Brown Univer- 
sity in Ehode Island, and Union College in the State of New 
York, was elected the first President. Under his auspices, the 
College has flourished to as great an extent as could reasonably 
be expected in the short period of its existence. Its present 
number of students is 87. Two classes, amounting to about for- 
ty, have already graduated. If its pupils are not wanting to 
themselves, they may be amply instructed in every language, 
art and science, necessary to prepare them for the service of their 
country. This College, yet in its infancy, possesses a very select 
and extensive library, and a philosophical apparatus, not inferior 
to any on the continent. 



From Mills' Statistics, p. 701. 

288. The South Carolina College is located in Columbia. It 
was established by Act of the Legislature, in December, 1801, 
and in 1804 it went into operation. $200,000 have been expend- 
ed in the erection of the requisite buildings, composed of 
two ranges, three stories high, appropriated for the students' 
dormitories, studies, lecture room and chapel; a President's 
house, four Professors' houses, besides a large building, embra- 
cing a laboratory, library, lecture and mineralogical rooms, all of 
brick. There are, also, a steward's house, refectory, and an oc- 
tagon observatory ; the whole disposed so as to form a hollow square, 
containing about ten acres, which is called the Campus. The 
whole premises occupy altogether about twenty-five acres of ground. 

The first President of this institution, Dr. Jonathan Maxcy, 
was elected by the Trustees to this responsible charge in 1804, 
.and died in 1820. His memory is highly cherished — and in 
commemoration of his worth and talents, a marble monument 
has been erected to his memory in the campus. 

Dr. Cooper, whose talents in every branch of science and lite- 
rature, are so well known and highly appreciated, is the succes- 
sor of Dr. Maxcy. Associated with him are five Professors, 
Park, Henry, Wallace, Nott and Vanuxem, aided by two tutors, 
Baker and Divers. 

The salaries of these officers amount to fourteen thousand dol- 
lars per annum. 

The President receives $3000 

Four Professors $2000 each 8000 

The Professor of Mineralogy 1000 

Two Tutors each $1000 2000 



$14,000 



South Carolina College. 79 

To this must be added $500, allowed yearly the Professor of 
Mineralogy, to make a mineralogical examination of the State. 

The Legislature granted also $10,000 for the purchase of a 
library and a philosophical apparatus, and $3000 for a mineral- 
ogical cabinet, which contains 5000 specimens, and upwards. It 
also presented the observatory with an excellent astronomical 
circle. 

The number of students will average one hundred and ten or 
twenty. It sometimes exceeds this, and is increasing. There 
is no institution of the kind in the United States that possesses 
more able Professors, or a better apparatus to exemplify the dif- 
ferent subjects of natural philosophy, chemistry, mineralogy, &c. 



From A. A. 1785, 4 Statutes, p. 674. 

289. AN ACT for erecting and establishing a College at the vil- 
lage of Winnsborough, in the district of Camden, a College 
in or near the city of Charleston, and a College at Ninety-Six, 
in the district of Ninety-Six, in the State of South Carolina. 
Whereas, the proper education of youth is essential to the hap- 
piness and prosperity of every community, and is therefore an 
object well worthy the attention of this Legislature ; and where- 
as, the incorporated Mount Zion Society have petitioned this 
House, that a College may be erected and established by law at 
the village of Winnsborough, in this State, for the instruction 
of youth in the learned languages, and the liberal arts and sci- 
ences, and that the said College may be committed to the man- 
agement, direction and government of Trustees, to be chosen 
and appointed by the said society out of their number. 



From McMullarfs Reports, Vol. I, p. 501, 

290. The Act of 1836, in regard to vagrants, is held to be 
constitutional. 

The powers conferred upon a Court of Justices by the Act of 
1836, in regard to vagrants, is no violation of those parts of the 
Constitution which provide that "no man shall be deprived of 
his life, liberty or property, but by the judgment of his peers, or 
by the law of the land ," and that " the trial by jury, as hereto- 
fore used in this State, shall be forever inviolably preserved." 

A proceeding for vagrancy, under the Act of 1836, is not 
barred by a prosecution in the Court of Sessions for gaming. 



mi I Carolina College. 
"From Eulogy on //'. .V Legi Ay W. C. Preston, p. 7. 

291. He entered College at the very early age of 14 ; his rep- 
utation having | receded him, he w,i-. on his arrival, an object of 
curiosity and interest to the students, while on his part, with 
boyish ingenuousness, he was Qot indisposed to exhibit his ac« 
qnisitions, or backward in permitting it to be understood that 
he intended to run for the honor- of his class. His previous ac- 
quirement-, the astonishing facility with which he added to 
them, and the eager industry with which he threw himself upon 
his studies, gave him at once a lead which he maintained through- 
out his course, until he was graduated, not only with the honors 
of College, but with a reputation in the State. He mainly de- 
voted himself to the departments of classical literature and phi- 
losophy, and zealously engaged in the discussions of the deba- 
ting societies, in which he practiced himself in the art of speak- 
ing. 

These studies were a passion with him. His attention to the 
exact sciences, however, seemed to be stimulated rather by an 
ambition of excellence and a sense of duty. His recitations in 
mathematics, chemistry and natural philosophy were always 
good, equal to the best in his class ; but his heart was in the 
classics. There he was not only learning but feasting. He 
was not only making stages on a journey, but lured on from 
height to height, enraptured with the growing scene, until all 
the glorious creations of Greek and Roman genius lay like a 
landscape beneath him. 

His own idea, in after life, of what ought to be accomplished 
at College, is elegantly expressed in a passage in which he un- 
consciously draws his own picture at the time of his graduation, 
defective only in this, that it falls short of what he had himself 
accomplished in the exact sciences. " All that we ask/' he says, 
" is that a boy should be thoroughly taught the ancient languages 
from his eighth to his sixteenth year, or thereabouts, in which 
time he will have his taste formed, his love of letters completely, 
perhaps enthusiastically, awakened, his knowledge of the princi- 
ples of universal grammar perfected, his memory stored with the 
history, the geography and the chronology of all antiquity, and 
with a vast fund of miscellaneous literature besides, his imagination 
kindled with the most beautiful and glowing passages of Greek and 
Roman poetry and eloquence : all the rules of criticism familiar to 
him. the sayings of sages, and the achievements of heroes, in- 
delibly impressed upon his heart. He will have his curiosity 
fired for further acquisition, and find himself in possession of 
the golden keys which open all the recesses where the stores of 
knowledge have ever been laid up by civilized man. The con- 
sciousness of strength will give him confidence, and he will go to 
the rich treasures themselves, and take what he wants, instead 
of picking up elemosynary scraps from those whom, in spite of 
himself, he will regard as his betters in literature. He will be 




South Carolina College. 81 

let into the great communion of scholars, throughout all ages 
and all nations — like that more awful communion of saints in the 
Holy Church Universal, and feel a sympathy with departed ge- 
nius, and with the enlightened and the gifted minds of other 
countries, as they appear before him, in the transports of a sort 
of Vision Beatific, bowing down at the same shrines, and glow- 
ing with the same holy love of whatever is most pure and fair 
and exalted and divine in human nature." 

Such was the condition of Mr. Legare when he left College. 

He did not fall into the fatal error of supposing that the col- 
lege course completed his education, or that the distinction ac- 
quired by it, entitled him to repose or indolence. He had learn- 
ed enough — no inconsiderable knowledge — to know his igno- 
rance ; and did not believe that he had even laid a foundation, 
but had merely been collecting materials for an education. He 
left the College, therefore, for the deeper seclusion of his own 
library ; and entering on the study of law, rather added to 
than changed his former labors. The study of his profession 
was the base line of very multifarious reading, and was in the 
beginning, and for many years afterwards, regarded as subsidia- 
ry to other objects, requiring also other attainments. He did 
not place himself formally in a lawyer's office, as is the custom 
of law students in our State, but sought and obtained for the 
direction of his studies, the aid of an eminent member of the 
bar, distinguished by his love of learning, not less than by his 
high professional standing, just now crowned by judicial honors ; 
honors which, however well' won or sustained, derive new lustre 
from the noble benevolence with which their emoluments are ap- 
propriated.* Under his friendly and judicious guidance, three 
years of Mr. Legare' s life were devoted chiefly to the study of 
his profession. Being prepared for admission to the bar, he did 
yet not deem his education complete, and proposed to add to it 
the advantages of foreign travel. 



Meeting of Trustees, Dec. 184G. 

292. Resolved, That the establishment of a scholarship in the 
College, by Col. John L. Manning, entitles him to the thanks of 
this College, as well for the munificence of the donation, as for the 
influence it may exercise in giving a right direction to the public 
charity of our citizens. 



* Mitchell King, Esq. — The salary of the office is appropriated to the 
family of the late incumbent. 

11 



82 South Carolina College. 

Extract from tlie Memoirs of Hon. Henry Wm. DeSaussure, 
pp. 22 and 23. 

293. In 1801, as a member of the Legislature, he took a 
zealous and active part in promoting the Act for the establish- 
ment of the South Carolina College, and few contributed more 
to its success ; an Act of more lasting benefit to the State, more 
honorable to its character, and more promotive of its true inter- 
ests, than any which its Legislature ever passed. This measure 
originated in the contest which had arisen between the tipper 
and lower country of the State, with respect to representation in 
the Legislature, The upper country, which, at the adoption of 
the Constitution of 1791, was comparatively poor and unpeo- 
pled, had allotted to it, by the provisions of the Constitution, a 
much smaller representation. It had now grown in wealth, far 
outnumbered the lower country in its' population, and impera- 
tively demanded a reform in the representation. This the peo- 
ple of the lower country feared to grant, on the ground of the 
general deficiency of education and intelligence in the upper 
country, which would render it incompetent to exercise wisely 
and justly the power which such a reform would place in its 
hands. It was to remedy this deficiency, that it was proposed 
to establish a College at Columbia. The Act was passed, not 
without difficulty, nor without the strenuous opposition of many 
whom it was more especially intended to benefit. There is no 
citizen of the State, and still more, there is no one who has di- 
rectly and personally received the benefits of the institution, 
whose deepest gratitude is not due to every one who contributed, 
in any degree, to the success of the measure. 



Extract from an address by Col. S. W. Trotti, at the Citadel 
Academy. 

294. It was, perhaps, to the efforts of the late Chancellor De- 
Saussure, more than to any other, that the South Carolina Col- 
lege owes its existence ; and I fancy that I can, even now, see 
his once venerable form, as he came up to each annual commence- 
ment, his silvery locks waving in the bleak December's wind, 
and his noble countenance beaming with animation, as he viewed 
each graduating class go forth into the busy world, educated 
and prepared for its struggles. And now, that my thoughts are 
turned to college days and joys long since gone by, I cannot for- 
bear this passing tribute to the memory of one of the purest and 

best of Carolina's departed sons. 

# # # # # - # 

South Carolina makes two annual appropriations to the sup- 
port of education, and two only. An appropriation of some 
thirty-five thousand dollars to the support of free schools, and 
another of fifteen or twenty thousand more, to the support of 



South Carolina College. 83 

the South Carolina College. If, in the opinion of many, the 
Free School System has proved a failure, and in the estimation 
of all, has not accomplished the good that was expected, how, I 
ask, has it fared with the College % Has that been a failure, or 
rather has it not accomplished all, and more than all, that its 
most ardent friends and admirers even dreamed of? Roll out 
the noble catalogue of its graduates, and let it speak for itself. 
From its earliest alumni down to its latest, from Harper and 
Petigru and Preston and McDunie and O'Neall and Legare, 
and a host of others, whose names are identified with all that 
is great in eloquence and learning, down to the youthful Cantey 
and Adams and Moraigne and Brooks and Dickinson, who yield- 
ed up their lives in a blaze of glory, amid the thunders of Chur- 
ubusco and Chepultepec, all have vindicated the claims of the 
College to the support and confidence of the State. I know there 
are some, who give grudgingly every dollar ivhicJi that college 
gets, and who look u/pon all colleges as expensive a?id aristocrat- 
ic institutions, which only benefit those who are educated at them. 
Itrust, hoioever, there are butfeio, and to such economists, perhaps, 
the best arguments that can be applied, are such as can be gath- 
ered from Pikers arithmetic. And let us see what a little cypher- 
ing can do. The State annually spends some fifteen or twenty 
thousand dollars on the College. This amount is laid out in 
the State, employs labor in the State, and forever remains in 
the State. In addition to this, the College brings young men 
into the State, who otherwise would not have come, and who 
Spend their money here, in acquiring an education. Suppose 
we had no College at all, these two hundred young men, now at 
the College in Columbia, would go out of the State to receive an 
education, and carry with them some ninety thousand dollars 
annually, to pay for it. A pretty considerable figure, on the 
wrong side of an account. The economy which would withhold 
a few thousand dollars from active employment in the State, and 
annually drive ninety thousand entirely out of it, never to re- 
turn, rather subjects itself to the imputation of being " penny 
wise and pound foolish." Nor can any thing be more errone- 
ous than that Colleges only benefit those who are educated at 
them. The honored names already referred to, should be con- 
clusive. Education does much to promote the general prosperi- 
ty of the country, and however poor a man may be, he is more 
or less benefitted by the prosperity around him. Every man is in- 
terested in the preservation of order, and education promotes that. 
But above all, every well educated man is more or less a teacher, 
and exercises an influence on others, sometimes for evil, it is true, 
but much oftener for good. It is his knowledge which enables him 
to defend the rights of the injured, or heal the diseases of the suf- 
fering. It is his science which points out the resources of the State, 
or it is his learning which akls his divine mission in the glorious 
work of gospel peace. The fruits of the South Carolina College 
have been exemplified in some of the good men, who have come to 
you in the name of their Heavenly Father, and who made your 



84 South Carolina College. 

city the field of their labors. Need I ask of you who witnessed 
the labors of the learned and pious Brantley, and who still cher- 
ish in affectionate remembrance, " the words which he spake 
while he was yet with you." Need I ask of you who have so 
often heard the voices of the gifted Manly, and the great and 
good Bishop Capers, warning unrepentant man against the dan- 
gers which beset his path, and pointing his hopes to the blood 
on Calvary. Need I ask of you, who, Sabbath after Sabbath, 
still listen to the "thoughts that breathe and words that burn" 
as they fall from the lips of my College friend, the eloquent 
Whiteford Smith. Need I ask of you, who have witnessed Ae 
labors of all these good and talented and pious men, who in the dis- 
charge of the duties of their holy mission, have watched and pray- 
ed by the bed side of your dying friends and kindred, and whose 
words of comfort and consolation, in your hours of trial and afflic- 
tion, have come over your wounded hearts, sweeter far than music 
on the ear. Need I ask you all, has that college in which these tal- 
ented and pious men were educated, and prepared to become 
such powerful instruments in the hands of God, in accomplish- 
ing the work of his blessed Son on earth, benefitted only those 
who were educated there, or have not the benefits it confers, 
been extended through them to others ? But if I were to contin- 
ue to speak of all the blessings that have been conferred by the 
South Carolina College on the State, I might detain you too 
long. If I were to name all those of its graduates, who have at- 
tained eminence in the pulpit or at the bar, in science, in medi- 
cine, on the battle field, or in the council chamber, where would 
I stop % It is sufficient they have more than realized the hopes 
of the State. 



Resolutions, adopted Dec. 1847, by Board of Trustees. 

395. Resolved. That at each annual meeting of the Board of Trus- 
tees, three members of the Board and seven gentlemen, to be se- 
lected from different parts of the State, be appointed visitors to 
attend the final examination of the senior class : and that they 
be paid three dollars per day for their services from the time 
they leave home, until their return. 

Resolved, That the visitors report to each annual meeting of 
the Board, the result of their visit, with such observations and 
recommendations as they may deem necessary. 

Resolved, That the following gentlemen be appointed visitors, 
viz : Hon. Robert W. Barnwell, Hon. Whitemarsh B. Seabrook, 
Hon. Edmund Bellinger, Hon. Mitchell King, Rev. Alexander 
Glennie, of Georgetown, Rev. S. S. Davis, of Camden, Rev. 
Thomas Curtis, of Spartanburgh, Rev. Dr. Hazelius, of Lexing- 
ton, Hon. Joel R. Poinsett, of Greenville, Rev. Whiteford 
Smith. 



South Carolina College. .85 



AN ADDRESS ' 

Delivered to the 'BACCALAUREATE of the South Caro- 
lina College, December 2, 1816. 

BY PRESIDENT MAXCY- 

296. To you, young gentlemen, the present is, perhaps, the 
most important period of life. You are now about to commence 
a new career, to engage in new pursuits, to display yourselves on 
the great theatre of the world ; to bring into exercise the powers 
and the virtues which you have cultivated, and to convert to private 
and public use, the learning and talents which you have acquired in 
the shades of retirement. On the determinations which you 
now make, and the plans of conduct which you now adopt, de- 
pend your future prosperity and honor, or your ill fortune and 
disgrace. On your enlargement from the restraints and disci- 
pline of collegiate life, some of you are filled with joyous hopes, 
others with anxious fears, and all, I presume, with an honorable 
ambition. On you are fixed the eyes and the hearts of your pa- 
rents and friends. From you they hope and expect much. And 
did they not, from experience, know the dangers to which you are 
exposed — did they not know the real evils of life, their pleasure 
on this occasion would be free from intruding anxiety ; their 
pleasing anticipations of your future glory would fill their minds 
with enchanting visions, and their hopes, strong and free, would 
spring and smile like a morning without clouds, But alas, they 
know that there is no unmixed good in this world ; that all things 
here exist by opposition and correspondence ; that wherever there 
is good, there is evil ; wherever there is safety, there is danger ; 
wherever there is hope, there is fear ; in short, that human life 
is a feverish dream of honor and shame, of joy and sorrow ; a 
compound of lawless ambition and brutal violence ; that in all 
nations, force ultimately triumphs over justice ; liberty sinks into 
the gulf of tyranny ; that innocence is no security ; that virtue 
and learning, philosophy and eloquence, all the glory and all the 
dignity of man, must at last bow to the sword of a Caesar or a 
Bonaparte ; that such is the mixture of moral and physical ill, 
in all parts of nature, and in all human affairs, that after a cer- 
tain period, evil begins to predominate over good, death gains 
upon life, ruin follows ruin, till the majesty of virtue is forgot- 
ten ; the splendor of genius extinguished ; the most sacred laws 
trampled under foot ; man degraded to a slave ; all the monu- 
ments of his art and skill defaced ; all his lofty intellectual and 
moral endowments sunk, degraded and lost in barbarism. But 
you must learn not to despair. Bad as human life is, evil does 
not, on the whole, predominate. A virtuous, wise; and coura- 
geous man will find much to hope for, and much to enjoy. Con 
scious of his own rectitude, he will possess peace within, and 



86 



South ( Iarolina College. 



the light.of immortality will dispel the horrors with whioh he ie sur- 
rounded, You will do well to remember, that the present world is 
a state of discipline, where von musl Btrugglewith adversity, to 
invigorate jour virtue; where (iod bas intermingled various de- 
grees of pleasure and pain, of good and evil, that finding nothing 
here to satisfy the immortal mind, you might elevate your affec- 
tions and hopes to a state of pure and imperishable joys. To 
act conscientiously, or as you are convinced La right, is a rule of 
universal application, and is, in its nature, calculated to produce 
happiness. A rational and moral agent cannot exist independ- 
ent of a law which prescribes and enforces his duty. Eight and 
wrong are wholly relative. They refer to a law which we con- 
sider as a standard of rectitude. This makes the eternal differ- 
ence between right and wrong, good and evil. 

The idea of a law, implies that of a law-giver, possessed of a 
right, flowing from his own excellence and underived supremacy, 
to prescribe laws to all inferior dependent beings ; and who has 
power to enforce those laws by adequate sanctions. Man is the 
only animal on this globe who lias the power of governing him- 
self by law, and when he does this, he is a moral agent ; that is, 
he acts from respect to a law whose obligatory power he recog- 
nizes. The morality of his actions consists in their relation to 
this law — and this relation is the only foundation of moral good 
and evil. The tendency of all the laws which God has establish- 
ed is to universal and perfect happiness. This would certain- 
ly be the result, were the requisitions of these laws fully com- 
plied with. The misery of man arises from his abuse of his 
moral liberty ; from his voluntary disconformity to the will of 
his Creator. This is the true origin of all the evil and misery 
that ever did or ever will exist. The truth of this is apparent, 
from the single consideration, that in a being wholly conformed 
to God, there can no more exist sin or misery, than in God him- 
self. You are so constituted, that you cannot remain indiffer- 
ent to human actions. When you perceive these to be conform- 
ed to the rule of right, a sense of approbation rises up in the 
mind ; when disconformed, of disapprobation. In both cases, 
you exercise moral sense. Be not deceived, therefore, by imag- 
ining that conscience or moral sense is the creature of educa- 
tion, a mere adventitious acquisition God has not rested the 
virtue and happiness of his rational creatures on so uncertain a 
foundation. Conscience is as much an original power of our na- 
ture, as the understanding ; though it does not. like the under- 
standing, act alone in any instance. The operations of intellect 
must always precede ; for unless you know that there are such 
things as law and obligation, you can have no perception of right 
and wrong, of merit or demerit, and of course, no exercise of 
moral sense. All our powers are evolved in a certain order, ex- 
ercised in their proper spheres, and in their peculiar relations 
and dependencies. The operations of moral sense, though in 
order subsequent to those of intellect, are wholly different from 



South Carolina College. 87 

them. If the operations of intellect prove it to be an original 
power of the mind, the operations of moral sense equally prove 
it to be an original power of the mind. You will perceive, there- 
fore, that virtue is not left unsupported ; that it is not left doubt- 
ful as to its motive, its nature or its end. You carry in your- 
selves the incitement, the rule and the reward. By admitting 
that the moral sense .springs up from the original frame of your 
nature, you cannot avoid the obligation of doing right, nor the 
censure and misery of doing wroug If you would, then, possess 
an approving conscience, take care to inform yourselves what is 
right ; to know the nature and extent of your obligations and 
duties. If you strictly adhere to these, you will be virtuous ; 
and in proportion as you are virtuous, God has ordained that 
you shall be happy. You are not bound down -by an invincible 
law of nature to be virtuous, because God has given you power 
to become vicious and miserable. In short, your power to do 
wrong, is the same as your power to do right. In both cases, 
the good or ill use of this power is left to your own choice. Re- 
member, then, that your own virtue, respectability, happiness 
and fame, depend on yourselves. Never leave to accident or an 
imaginary fatality, what God has put in your power. Honor 
and virtue drop not from the clouds ; the winds will not bring 
you bread, nor will the earth reach out a sceptre to your hand. 
God offers you his bounty, but leaves the improvement of it to 
yourselves. 

You have every motive, therefore, to excite you to the most 
vigorous exertion of all your powers, to know and discharge 
your duties. These relate to God, to yourselves, and to your 
fellow men. All your relations involve duties ; and the impor- 
tance of the latter, is in proportion to the intimacy of the former. 
Of course, your duties to your Creator demand your first and 
highest regard. From him you have derived your being ; on him 
you are wholly dependent ; and to him you are amenable. The 
full homage of the heart, while it is justly due to him, lays the 
only foundation of true virtue, and constitutes the only guaran- 
tee of your other duties. If you know, and love, and fear God, 
you will pay all suitable respect to yourselves and to your fellow 
men ; and you will in all things act conscientiously. This alone 
will give you stability in principle, energy in action, and dignity 
in character. Consider not, as is frequently done, the service of 
God as a wearisome burden. It is the highest glory and privilege 
of all intelligent beings. The laws of God are all just ; his re- 
quirements all reasonable, suitable to your state and capacity, and 
directly conducive to your happiness. He acts from no necessi- 
ty towards you. He needs neither your love nor your service — 
for these can add nothing to an infinite being. All he desires is 
your happiness, and this he pursues by all means consistent with 
your natures, as free accountable creatures. The true happiness 
of an intelligent being springs from virtue, and virtue from free- 
dom. Hence it is evident that omnipotence itself cannot make 



88 South Carolina College. 

you happy by arbitrary irresistable force ; for this would destroy 
your moral agency, and convert you into brutes or machines. 
Your happiness, and that of all rational accountable beings, is 
the happiness of free will. Choose, therefore, the service of 
God ; conform your actions to his laws ; yield up your affections 
wholly to him, for every thing appertaining to this world will ul- 
timately leave you wretched. When a due reverence for the 
Supreme Being is established in the heart, the empire of virtue 
will be secured, because you will then consider all the relative du- 
ties of life, as duties to God. In a life of virtue, the greatest 
victory to be obtained, is over yourselves. The heart of man, 
the seat of all his appetites and passions, is the source of all his 
vices and crimes, and of most of his errors. Reason and con- 
science were designed for his governors ; but in his present fallen 
state, the authority of these is opposed, and not unfrequently 
wholly renounced. The soul loses its freedom with its peace, 
and sinks into the dreadful empire of death. If you would pre- 
serve yourselves from this deplorable state, stifle the first sug- 
gestion of evil ; resist the first approach of temptation ; keep 
your hearts with all diligence. Thus acting, you will be mas- 
ters of yourselves. . You will be able to cultivate, with success, 
every personal virtue, and to acquire every useful and amiable 
accomplishment. Though the rule of right applies as directly 
to the duties owing to ourselves and to our fellow men, as to 
those owing to God, yet it somehow happens that most men are 
disposed to disregard their own personal, more than their rela- 
tive obligations, especially those which involve the duties of self- 
denial. This is a great and dangerous error ; for no man can 
injure himself by vice or neglect, without directly or remotely 
injuring others. You are as much responsible for the influence 
of your example on others, as for the ill effects of your actions 
on yourselves. Remember that personal virtue is the founda- 
tion of all real worth, of all true dignity of character, of all genu- 
ine piety to God, and of the most extensive usefulness to man- 
kind. In proportion as a man becomes vicious, he renders him- 
self incapable of doing good ; destroys his own peace and that 
of others ; perverts the noble end of his being, soils every shi- 
ning quality, and degrades every intellectual and moral endow- 
ment. The danger of immoral example arises chiefly from 
wrong notions of true happiness, and from want of reflection 
and due consideration. Vice, if properly seen, cannot, like vir- 
tue, spread on the principle of sympathetic association. A ra- 
tional, sensitive being, cannot deliberately choose misery. If 
you examine the laws and principles which God has established 
in your nature — if you compare these with the injunctions of his 
revealed will, you will perceive a wonderful coincidence ; and all 
your inquiries, if impartially conducted, will result in the firm con- 
viction, that every motive is in favor of virtue and against vice ; 
that the last is only another name for pain, disgrace and misery, 
the former for pleasure, honor and happiness. Never imagine 



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that you can evade or violate, with impunity, the laws of your 
nature. G-od has, in all things, connected your duty with your 
happiness. The relations which you sustain towards others, in- 
volve numerous and important obligations. These result from 
the common principles and reciprocal wants of your nature, and 
from the laws of political society. Here opens the principal field 
for the display of those virtues, talents and qualifications which 
benefit mankind ; which conciliate their esteem, secure their 
friendship, and excite their admiration. Be cautious, therefore, 
that you honorably discharge the obligations resulting from the 
social state. Much of the happiness of your lives will depend 
on the good will of those around you. This will be most effect- 
ually secured by a conscientious discharge of your duties — in 
rendering exact justice to all men, in paying all due respect to 
your superiors, in kindness and condescension to your inferiors, 
in civility and politeness to your equals, in liberality to the poor 
and distressed, in supporting all institutions for the relief of hu- 
man misery, and for the increase of human happiness. Thus, by 
acting in all the relations of life according to the rule of right, 
you will satisfy your own consciences, you will promote your own 
respectability and usefulness, you will secure the esteem of men, 
and the friendship of G-od. 

As it is your lot to come forward into life at a most interest- 
ing period, let your conduct be marked with the most disinterest- 
ed love of your country. Avoid the contagion of party spirit. 
Exercise a noble and independent liberality towards those who 
differ from you in sentiment. Cultivate peace with all men, and 
support the laws and constitution of your country. I trust and 
believe that you go from this college with a deep sense of the 
value of civil and religious freedom. To behold you exerting 
your talents in support of these, will afford the highest pleasure 
to those who have conducted your education. 

The prompt obedience which you have rendered to the author- 
ity of this college, the diligence with which you have pursued 
your studies, the civility and decency which have characterised 
your deportment, have greatly contributed to the good order and 
regular discipline of this college, and have set an example which 
I hope will long be remembered and followed. Though many 
individuals among your predecessors have held a high rank in 
literary distinction, yet, when I consider the number and talents 
of the present class, I must pronounce you the lights of this in- 
stitution. Permit me to express, on this occasion, the high satis- 
faction which I experience in crowning you with the laurels of 
this college. May they grow and flourish forever. Departing 
from this institution, you carry with you my most ardent desires 
for your happiness. I now give you my final adieu, and recom- 
mend you to the blessing of God. 



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PRESIDENT PRESTON'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS, 

1846. 

Young Gentlemen of the College : — 

Entering upon the office to which the trustees have appointed 
me, I have thought it not inappropriate to present myself to you, 
in a somewhat formal way, and to make a few remarks, which the 
occasion seems to justify. 

The intimate relations which are hereafter to subsist between 
us, involving very grave responsibilities on my part, and the deep- 
est interests of life on yours, will be the more readily and efficient- 
ly established by an exposition of my understanding of our most 
prominent respective duties, and of the feelings and purposes 
with which I now assume mine. 

It has been the pleasure of the Trustees to call me from walks 
of life very remote, from those I now enter upon. For many 
years, I have been busy amidst the active pursuits of men, ta- 
king some part in affairs where the conflict of interest, the colli- 
sion of intellect, and the tumult - of strenuous and stormy pas- 
sions, left but little leisure for those calm and meditative employ- 
ments which are the occupation within these walls. 

After thirty years absence from them. I return, but in a new 
and trying condition : with sympathies in all your pursuits, to be 
sure, and tastes not entirely alienated from science and literature, 
but with a deep and fearful anxiety, that I may, indeed must 
be, unqualified to discharge the trust as it ought to be. Under 
a conscious deficiency. I would have shrunk from this office, but 
that I yielded my own opinion to that of those for whose judg- 
ment, experience and knowledge of the institution, I have an en- 
tire deference. Of that Board of Trustees, whose command I 
obey, I can safely affirm, that having, in the chances of life, been 
occasionally thrown with men distinguished by the consent of 
the whole country, I have not found any where, even in those ex- 
alted stations to which a nation's interests call its most conspicu- 
ous citizens, a wiser, graver, or more highly endowed body. 

To its discretion and intelligence, the destinies of this cher- 
ished institution are well confided : and I hold myself ready to 
conform to its wishes with the same implicit confidence, whenever 
it may think fit to remit me to the pursuits of private life, as 
now, that I relinquish those pursuits in compliance with them. 

I have the more willingly acquiesced in their judgment, as it 
has been in favor of one who had differed with the State, on 
some important and exciting questions. To be made its trusted 
agent under such circumstances, to be put, without solicitation, 
in this place of confidence and honor, in which the interests, the 
hopes, and the affections of the State are so deeply implicated, 
fills me with gratitude, and oppresses me with a painful sense of 
responsibility. In the swell of strong emotions which fill my 
heart, all vanity is quenched in the consciousness of inadequacy 
to make a suitable return. 



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What I bring, gentlemen, to my station, and what I trust may 
in some sort make amends for my deficiencies in other respects, 
is a deep and reverential love for this, my Alma Mater — a sol- 
emn sense of my duties, and I may be permitted to say, a love 
of letters not altogether extinguished by contact with the world. 
Nor am I insensible, in adopting this course of life, to the pleas- 
ing satisfaction (as Cicero says) of seeing myself surrounded by 
a circle of ingenuous youths, and conciliating by laudable means 
their esteem and affection. There certainly cannot be a more 
important or honorable occupation, than to instruct the rising 
generation in the duties to which they may hereafter be called ;* 
and I hope I may, without the imputation of arrogance, be al- 
lowed to adopt another sentiment of that illustrious Roman : 

" Ac fuit quidem quam mihi quoque initium acquiescendi, atque 
animum ad utriusque nostrum prseclara studia referendi, fore 
justum et prope ab omnibus concessum arbitrare — si infinitus fo- 
rensium rerum labor, et ambitionis occupatio, decursu honorem, 
etiam setatis flexu, constitisset."f 

In the pleasing task to which I now address nryself, it will be 
my constant effort to promote your studies, and to prepare you 
for the duties of life, (more important than life itself,) with such 
stores of learning as may be acquired here, but more especially 
with ardent and virtuous aspirations to acquit yourselves with 
honor hereafter. 

The immediate and ostensible object of our association, is the 
pursuit of learning, and this might seem to be our sole purpose ; 
but in truth, learning is only a means to the great end we have 
in view. It is an instrument which is prepared and fashioned 
here, with some instruction as to the mode of using it. It is 
but the armour, but a part of the armour, to be worn in the bat- 
tle field of life, for the achievement of honorable and glorious 
victories, for the triumph of truth over error, of virtue over vice, 
of right over wrong. And although I cherish the conviction, 
that there is a natural and intimate connection between knowl- 
edge and virtue, yet I know that they are not inseparable. 
There have been melancholy instances of great intellectual pow- 
ers united to acquisions from the whole circle of learning, with- 
out a corresponding moral elevation. These, however, I regard 
as anomalies ; I rejoice to believe, that in the general order of 
Providence, whatever enlarges and exalts the intellect, promotes, 
purifies and invigorates the virtues of the heart. If I did not 
believe in such a connexion, I would abandon myself to indo- 
lence and despair. But the noble and distinctive faculties of 
man, whose combination constitutes his dignity and glory, aye 

* De Scnectute. 

t I have always soothed myself with the hope, that there would eome a 
time of quiet and repose, when I might return to the noble studies thai oc- 
cupy us here. I have fondly looked forward to the day, when having fin- 
ished my career of active life, I tnighl have the right to enjoy a lettered re- 
pose, freed from the toils of the bar, and the painful pursuits of politics. — pe 
Oralore. 



92 South Carolina College* 

harmonized by his Creator into a concerted action for a common 
purpose. Whatever enlightens the mind improves the heart, as 
the sun which illuminates the atmosphere warms the earth ; and 
although it may happen that his beams are reflected from fields 
of ice, yet his general mission is to call forth whatever is useful 
and beautiful, and impregnate with vitality the whole body of 
nature. True knowledge is the knowledge of truth ; as it is 
said in the fine arts, that nothing is beautiful but the true, so, in 
the wide signification of the word, it may be said that nothing 
is good but the true. To confer upon learning its just dignity 
and importance, it must be considered as subsidiary and auxili- 
ary to the paramount ends of our being. It must always have 
in view our responsibilities in this life, and the awful responsibil- 
ities of a far more exceeding weight hereafter. You are to be 
made intellectual men, that you may be fit moral agents — so that 
as you advance in learning, you may advance in the knowledge 
and appreciation of virtue ; remembering always, that the lamp 
which you light up is not a gaudy show, to please by its variegated 
radiance, but is intended for a more useful and noble purpose, to 
show you, amidst the double night of error and of passion which 
obscures your journey through life, the only ways of pleasant- 
ness and paths of peace. Undoubtedly, learning, of itself, is 
graceful and ornamental, and knowledge is power, but learning 
and knowledge attain their true beauty and full power, only when 
united to virtue, and this union is ennobled, and, so to speak, 
sanctified by piety — making the highest condition of our nature. 
Learning, morality, religion, these are your great objects. These, 
in the right understanding of them, include all that is desirable. 
They comprehend those lesser morals, the aggregate of which 
make a gentleman fitted to adorn and delight society — they 
comprehend all those sentiments which become a citizen born to 
a participation in the government of the commonwealth, and all 
those deep convictions and lofty aspirations which belong to heirs 
of eternity. This is my conception of the object and purposes 
for which we are associated. If we can persuade you to enter- 
tain a corresponding idea of your duties, our task will be an 
easy one. We shall be joint laborers in the same field, cheered 
by the sure prospect of a luxuriant harvest. This, our seed time, 
will be a season of hope and joy, while we look forward with 
eager and confident anticipation to the glories of a rich harvest, 
and still further, to the garnering of it where there is no rust, 
and thieves cannot break through nor steal. 

But besides the ulterior and paramount value of the moral 
sentiments to which I have alluded, they are of immediate and 
vital consequence to us here. The good order and successful 
administration of the College, depend entirely upon their influ- 
ences. 

You have passed the period of coercion, and already are mor- 
al agents. In all communities, laws avail but little, without a 
prevailing sentiment to sustain and carry them out in their true 



South Carolina College. 93 

spirit. " Quid valeant leges sine moribus" is true every where, 
but most emphatically true here ; our government resolves itself 
almost entirely into an appeal to the sense of honor and duty, 
without which, our laws are nugatory, and their impotent penal- 
ties carry no sanction. The fear of the law which prompts to a 
cold and reluctant observance of it, may secure from punish- 
ment, but as a principle of action, must always fail of any hon- 
orable success ; and the government whose efficiency depends 
solely upon it, must fail in its main objects. 

You cannot, young gentlemen, you ought not to be governed 
by mere dint of law ; you must feel that there are other and 
higher rules than it imposes — indeed other and higher laws than 
are to be found in our statutes ; laws in your own bosoms, writ- 
ten on your hearts, the penalty for disobedience to which, is the 
consciousness of wrong, and the reward of obedience, the con- 
sciousness of right. 

It may, and perhaps must be, necessary, wherever human na- 
ture is to be governed, to invoke the interposition of the law ; 
but our habitual and by far more pleasant, and as we hope, most 
efficient appeal, will be to your honor and sense of right. 

We do not indulge the chimerical expectation that a moral 
discipline can be so far enforced, as. to supercede an occasional 
application of penal laws. Our observation of life permits 
no such hope, for no association whatever, not senates or 
councils, can be regulated by the mere discretion of the mem- 
bers, much less can it be expected from the thoughtlessness and 
passions of the young. Acts of discipline must occur, and when 
the occasion requires them, they will be firmly and promptly ap- 
plied ; but what we do calculate on, is the prevalence of a per- 
vading sentiment, that will render such a necessity unfrequent — ■ 
a sentiment which will inspire more fear of offence than of pun- 
ishment. 

The impulsiveness and impatience belonging to your time of 
life, naturally make the degree of exertion and industry requi- 
site to your proper advancement, irksome and painful to you. 
Indolence presents herself to the young, aye, and to the old, in 
a thousand seducing forms. Industry is of a harsh and crabbed 
aspect. The one seems to point to a smooth and flowery path, 
the other to a rugged and painful assent ; but around that se- 
ducing path lurk all the ills of life, and that toilsome assent, at 
every step, opens wider and wider a broad and beautiful pros- 
pect, and leads eventually to those elevations to which the noble 
spirit aspires. 

Industry is the prolific mother of many virtues. She produ- 
ces as well as sustains them ; they all cluster around and nestle 
about her, growing and strengthening by her care. Genius it- 
self, that divine quality which seems to be instinct witli innate 
power, and to rise by its own upward tendency — genius itself, is 
plumed for its highest flights, and trained to them by industry. 
It is an utter mistake to imagine that any endowment can dis- 



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pense with labor. It is a fatal error into which young men fall;, 
no great achievement ever has or ever can be effected without 
it ; the mode of its application may be obscure, but its presence 
is not the less certain. We have heard of the forest-born De- 
mosthenes, " of nature's darling," — 

" Fancy's child. 
"Warbling his native wood notes wild," — 

il of the blind old man of Scio's rocky isle." These were men 
of genius, unquestionably, but Henry and Shakspeare and Ho- 
mer, were also men of labor ; they had the blessings of inspira- 
tion, but the blessing came to them after they had wrestled all 
night. 

Our intercourse, I trust, will be characterized by the courte- 
sy becoming gentlemen. My government. I hope, will be ani- 
mated by the vigilance, and tempered by the affection, of a pa- 
rent. If I see you preparing yourselves to go home to delight 
a father's heart, my bosom will swell with a parent's pride, and 
my vanity will be gratified, if your proficiency authorizes me to 
believe, that when the State shall hereafter point to its jewels, I 
may say I helped to fashion them. 

I trust, also, gentlemen, that both our official and social rela- 
tions may be such, that when you go into the world, and ascer- 
tain by experience the value of the lessons taught here, you will 
remember the College with affection, and me with no indifferent 
feelings, and meet me, when the chances of life throw us togeth- 
er, not without emotion. 

Young gentlemen, if I were better qualified than I am for this 
office, I know how vain my efforts must be, even with the assist- 
ance of my able colleagues and your zealous co-operation, without 
the gracious protection and help of our Heavenly Father. To 
Him, then, and to his beneficent providence, I humbly and ear- 
nestly commend the issue of this undertaking. 



Extract from an address by Hon. Charles J. Jenkins^ of Geor- 
gia^ at AtJiens, 1836. 

298. We have convened upon the bourn that separates the 
preparatory and the active stages of human life. Here are as- 
sembled young adventurers, eagerly pressing into the crowded 
scenes and alluring enterprises of earth; and time-worn pil- 
grims, happy in a temporary respite from its toils and cares, its 
vanities and vicissitudes. How opposite their thoughts, how dis- 
similar their emotions. From the quiet shades of our academi- 
an grove, where towers in its simple grandeur the temple of sci- 
ence, have come her youthful votaries, the expectant teachers of 



South Carolina College. 95 

her sublime truths. Some there are, who, anticipating a speedy 
return thither to complete the term of collegiate education, re- 
gard this scene with restless aspirations for the prerogatives and 
occupations of manhood. So the captive mariner, from the gra- 
ted window of his prison cell, looks out upon the expansive main, 
the proper element for his own wild, ocean spirit, then breathes 
a sigh in prospect of his protracted thraldom Others, having 
completed their novitiate, and received the first titular distinc- 
tion among the learned, are prepared to enter upon their several 
stations in society. To-morrow they mingle with the throng — 
to-morrow they assume the grave responsibility of choosing, each, 
the occupation of his life, of controlling, each, his individual des- 
tiny. 

Bouyant with hope, the past is not in all their thoughts — the 
future, the ever-glorious future, in its broad immeasurable stretch, 
lies before them, and youthful imagination throws over the pros- 
pect its own bright and gorgeous coloring. This is the hour of 
promise, and the exulting heart accredits its blissful anticipa- 
tions, as the prophetic disclosures of inspiration. 

Not so with those who have learned lessons in the school of 
experience, to whom there have been days and years of fruitless 
expectation. The voluptuary from his wonted haunts of pleas- 
ure, the merchant from the busy mart of commerce, the states- 
man from the closed halls of legislation, the husbandman from 
the verdant fields of agriculture, the beauteous maiden from the 
social circle she enlivens and adorns, the venerable matron from 
the home of her affections, and the sphere of her charities, all 
have come up hither, engrossed by the thronging and chequer- 
ed recollections of the past. 

How delightful on this anniversary, is the retrospect of col- 
legiate life. As the traveller of the desert turns many a linger- 
ing look upon the oasis, whose reviving shade and cooling foun- 
tain renovated his failing strength, so on life's toilsome journey, 
does the weary graduate revert to the pleasant scenes of his 
Alma Mater. Then, why on this occasion suppress the sympa- 
thetic emotions of the few in this assembly, whose reminiscen- 
ces of that period are intensely excited by personal and local 
associations ? Here, sitting in high places of literary distinc- 
tion, are some of those who governed in this little aristoc- 
racy of letters, in the days of our allegiance. Instructors of 
our boyhood, whose pleasure it was to develope our minds, to 
guard our morals, and. to regulate our affections, we greet you, 
the benefactors of our lives. Yours has been a day of active 
usefulness ; tranquil and happy be the evening that cometh, un- 
clouded and full of hope the night when it falleth. Here, too, 
are many who then graced and dignified by their residence, this 
seat of science. How blest were the years, when their applause 
quickened our emulation, their example led us on in the ways of 
probity and honor, and their generous hospitality beguiled our 
hours of relaxation. While we have been abroad in the world. 



96 South Carolina College. 

the liand of art hath wrought a mighty change in the surround- 
ing scenery. It is as though the enchanter had waved his ma- 
gic wand oyer the hills we left in their native wildness, and tem- 
ples and palaces and gardens had sprung into being. Yet amid 
all these monuments of growing prosperity, there are numerous 
traces of the olden time, landmarks sacred to memory, which 
shall stand unchangeably the same, while coming generations 
pass over the scene. Hills and groves and fields, identified with 
holiday sports and rural rambles : old Oconee in her perennial 
flow, tributary to the arts, yet true to nature ; yon ancient pile 
teeming with recollections of boyish hilarity^ the undulating 
hue of blue that bounds the western horizon — Yonah and Curra- 
hee, towering dimly in the distance ; these are objects familiar to 
the eye and dear to the heart of the returning wanderer. But 
dearer far is the memory of those blithe, impulsive and unso- 
phisticated spirits, whose sweet companionship animated and hal- 
lowed the scenes we revisit. Dispersed as we have been, over a 
widely extended territory, engaged in various pursuits, who of 
us all has forgotten the fellowship of that early day ? who, that 
owns not, and feels not the spell, which no enchantment of after 
times can dissolve : a spell that thrills in the heart, and beams 
in the eye, as each greets his fellows in our annual return to the 
spot where first it bound us. But our emotions are not those of 
unmixed delight. Forms there were which we see not, and voi- 
ces which we hear not in the walks of life : companions we had, 
who meet us not here. With pure hearts and cultivated minds, 
honor their polar star, public good their general aim, they went 
forth to discharge the duties that devolve upon man in the social 
state. Soon a new impulse stirred in the bosom of society ; a 
gentle but growing influence attested the accession to benevolent 
and patriotic enterprise. But the doom of mortality awaits 
alike the old and the young, the prodigal son, and the child of 
promise. Our comrades have fallen. To the multitude, they 
are as if they had never been ; but ours is the melancholy pleas- 
ure of recalling them to these scenes, sacred to our youthful 
friendships, and our manly sorrows. Peace be to their manes, 
honor to their memories. 

The infinitely various phases of society present no spectacle 
more imposing, than a grave, earnest and consentient multitude ; 
and in proportion to the dignity of the general purpose, will the 
impression approximate to the moral sublime. Why, then, are 
here congregated the old and young, the mirthful and serious, the 
renowned and beautiful ? What is the attractive object, whose 
secret, potent charm, has, for successive days, actuated as by one 
impulse, this enlightened auditory 1 The pageantry of wealth, 
the glitter of fashion, the display of gallantry and the canvass 
for office, are but incidents of the grand design, imparting to 
the occasion a secondary interest. To foster and perpetuate a 
system of education, to observe its progress and celebrate its 
triumps, is the leading motive, the interesting employment of 
this whole people. They are here to bear testimony, that the 



South Carolina College. 97 

University of Georgia is the pride and hope of her sons. And 
thou, fair daughter of science, instructress of youth, patroness 
of genius, behold in this spectacle the evidence of thy past use- 
fulness, and the earnest of thy future greatness ! 

Fellow-citizens, the cause of education is worthy the interest 
you manifest in its advancement. All individual happiness and 
national prosperity result, either mediately or immediately, from 
the successful employment of cultivated intellect, in ameliora- 
ting the condition of the species. What momentous consequen- 
ces have resulted from the energetic, self-confident and perva- 
ding intelligence of Christopher Columbus — how forcibly is the 
proposition illustrated by contrasting the new world, as discov- 
ered by him, with the western hemisphere, as inhabited by our- 
selves ! Here was the same mighty continent, with its vast va- 
riety and fecundity of soil, irrigated by the same majestic rivers, 
irradiated by the same genial sun, and canopied by the same 
bright heavens. Here, too, was man, not the tenant of a day, 
but the possessor by immemorial descent, of this more, than 
princely heritage, though unblest with that richer inheritance, 
intellectual cultivation. And what was the aspect of the coun- 
try ? The habitation of man was scarcely less rude than the 
lair of the beast ; his occupation as ignoble, his ferocity more 
indomitable. Broad as the land, ancient as the hills, and fruit- 
less as the desert, stood the primeval forest. All things bore 
the original impress of nature ; and mountain to mountain 
echoed nought but the roar of the cataract, and the yell of the 
savage. Whence came the change? Who felled the forest, 
built up cities, organized society, and established empire in the 
bosom of the wilderness % 'Twas the emigrant from other climes, 
where reason, asserting her supremacy, had acquired science and 
originated arts. 'Twas educated man. 



Extract from an address delivered before the. Euphradian and 
Clariosophic Societies, at the anniversary celebration, in De- 
cember, 1842, ^2/ C. G Memminger, a member of the Clario- 
sophic society. 

Gentlemen of the Euphradian 

And Clariosophic Societies: 
299. The time will soon arrive when you will leave the care 
of this, our Alma Mater, to take your places upon the stage of 
human action. Many of you will be called upon to yield your 
talents to the service and councils of our country. It is when 
the active duties of life shall make their demands upon you, that 
you will perceive and exhibit the value of the principles with 
which your minds are imbued. Their truth or error will produce 
results fraught with blessing or with evil, to yourselves and to 
others, within your sphere of influence. It is of the last impor- 

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tance, tlien, that you should search well your foundation, and 
plant yourselves upon those great principles of religious truth, 
which, like the never failing laws of nature, ever point to the 
same great centre, from which, iliey all do emanate. 

In Physical science, as well as in mere Mental Philosophy, it 
has pleased the great Creator to place us in the midst of facts, 
and have us to build up systems from tJiese facts by the operations 
of inductive reasoning. As the truth or error of these systems 
involve no moral agency, we are not held accountable for them, 
but are left free to admit or deny their reasonableness, accord- 
ingly as they impress our minds. But when we step further, 
and reach the point of action, philosophy has become changed 
to duty, and the wisdom and benevolence of God now intervene 
to guide us. Revelation now presents us with positive commands, 
and the facts of the moral icorld are no longer left at large, to be 
arranged, into system by our finite intelligence ; but are adjusted 
by infinite wisdom into so simple and well contrived a scheme, 
that lie ivho runs may read it. Thus, in the events of history, 
to which I have been directing your attention, God does not per- 
mit us to look upon the prosperity and upon the ruin of nations, 
as a mere spectacle to be gazed at ; but He tells us distinctly, 
of the object and causes of that prosperity and of that destruc- 
tion. Behold this nation, says he, it shall nourish, because it 
obeys my laws. Look at this other, it hath filled up the meas- 
ure of its iniquities, and I will sweep it with a besom of destruc- 
tion. The great principle is announced. " The righteous shall 
flourish like a palm tree, and shall spread abroad like a cedar in 
Lebanus, while the wicked shall be cut down like the grass, and 
be withered even as the green herb." And as we follow down 
the course of events, we behold nation after nation subjected to 
this rule, and suffering its consequences with that undeviating 
certainty which is the element of every law of God. 

Thus we are taught that we, too, must be subjected to this 
same unvarying law. Our people and our nation must, like 
those whose fate has been exhibited to us, be weighed in the 
everlasting balance. See, then, to what point you are brought. 
Behold how important it is, that you, who must soon take your 
places in directing the destinies of South Carolina, should feel 
your dependence upon the Almighty Governor of the Universe, 
and should strive to secure His favor and obey His laws. Behold 
His blessing or His curse awaiting the course which you may 
pursue. See what may be done by the eiforts of a few, when 
for ten righteous men, even Sodom would have been spared. 
But not only will the land be spared, but it will be refreshed by 
the favor of the King of kings, if you but keep in that land a 
remembrance of his statutes, and an earnest desire to walk in 
the same. 

There is also another great practical principle announced, in 
the events which we have been considering, to which I desire to 
invite your attention. It is, that man is not held accountable 



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for ultimate consequences. The immediate act before him, is 
that which he must conscientiously perform, Duties are ours, 
results are in the hands of God. We are not charged to con- 
cern ourselves about possible results, further than as they are 
part of the present act. The providence of Grod cares for the 
future — our business is with the present. We are to see that our 
next step is in the straight forward path of truth, that our next 
act is prompted by an enlightened sense of right ; and all fear, 
least in doing right now we may suffer evil hereafter, is to be ban- 
ished from the mind. On no occasion is the conscience to be be- 
guiled by the snare, that one false step may be taken to retrace 
or avoid evil, or to procure future good. If we move steadily 
forward in the path of right, Grod hath given us his promise, that 
no evil shall befal us, however much it may seem to impend. 

Such a course of action creates a noble, manly, Christian 
character, unfaltering in its resolution, brave in action, and 
strong of pupose ; fearless, never daunted, and always moving 
onward in the path of duty. Confident of the support of the 
Supreme Lord of all, he is relieved of all fear of human oppo- 
sition, and is discharged from every feeling of mortification at 
defeat, or exultation at success. Flattery cannot pervert, scorn 
or ridicule cannot move him, for the approbation which alone he 
seeks, is that of the great Being who has never failed those 
who seek His favor. 

It is true that, occasionally, the path may be beset with dan- 
ger. Darkness may obscure the distance, even clouds may lower 
and threaten to burst, if we pursue our way. But there is the 
test of principle ; there is to be exhibited the force of that truth 
which should fill our souls — the truth to be deduced from every 
page of revealed religion. " The eyes of the Lord are upon the 
righteous, and His ears are open unto their cry." Let him who 
is beset with danger stand firmly at his post, and the path will 
soon be clear. Let him who fears the bursting of the storm, 
advance in the direction whither duty calls ; let him breast even 
the billows, and they will subside before him , for he has the 
sure word of promise from Him, of whose truth heaven and 
earth bear witness. 



From " An Act to make appropriations for the year commencing 
in October, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one." 

300. For the expenses of two students in the College, sent by 
the Orphan House in Charleston, each, four hundred dollars, if 
so much be necessary, to be paid to the order of the Chairman of 
the Board of Commissioners of said Orphan House, for the use 
of each such student. 



100 South Carolina College. 

301. BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 1847. 

David Johnson, Governor of the State, President of the Board 
of Trustees. 

W. A. Cain, Lieutenant Governor. 

Angus Patterson, President of the Senate. 

Wm. F. Colcock, Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

Chancellors : Messrs : 

Job Johnston, James Gillespie, 

B. F. Dunkin, Edmund Bellinger, 

J. J. Caldwell. Whitemarsh B. Seabrook, 

G. W. Dargan. James H. Adams, 

Judges: B. F. Perry, 

J. S. Richardson, Wm. F. Davie. 

J. B. O'Neall, Wade Hampton. 

J. J. Evans, C. G. Memmtnger, 

D. L. Wardlaw, J. N. Whitner, 

E. Frost, T. N. Dawktns, 
T. J. Withers. J. L. Manning, 

Messrs : R. F. W. Allston, 

R. W. Gibbes, John Buchanan, 

W. F. DeSaussure, H. C. Young, 

R. W. Barnwell, J. D. Witherspoon, 

Thomas Smith, F. Wardlaw. 

J. D. Blanding, Secretary of the Board of Trustees. 

FACULTY. 

Hon. Willdim C. Preston, President, and Professor of Belles 
Lettres and Elocution. 

William H. Ellet, M. D. Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy 
and Geology. 

Francis Lieber, Professor of History, Political Philosophy and 
Economy. 

Rev. James H. Thornwell, D. D. Professor of Moral Philoso- 
phy, Sacred Literature, and Evidences of Christianity. 

Maximilian Laborde, M. D. Professor of Logic, Rhetoric, Men- 
tal Philosophy and Physiology. 

Rev. R. Henry, D. D. Professor of Greek Literature. 

Charles P. Pelham, Professor of Roman Literature. 

Matthew J. Wdlliams, Professor of Mathematics, Mechanical 
Philosophy, Astronomy, and Civil Engineering. 

Francis Lieber, Secretary of the Faculty. 

OTHER OFFICERS. 

F. W. McMaster, A. M. Librarian. 
A. D. Goodwyn, A. M. Treasurer. 

G. T. Anderson, Bursar. 
C. Looms, Marshal. 



INDEX. 



Sec, 
ABSENCE. 

In case of, of President of Board of Trustees — ._ 19 48 

Of President of College , 24 81 

ACTS OF LEGISLATURE. 

Concerning College.-,. -.*._* . 3 to 18 

ADMISSION TO COLLEGE. 

Applicants to be examined by Faculty, and not ad- 
mitted, unless acquainted with necessary prepar- 
atory studies- _ ^ * - 22 66 

To be 14 years of age for Freshman class, and 15 for 

other classes __-^ *..«*•-*..>;*: 22 67 

To pay in advance to Treasurer 22 68, 69, 70 

Certificate of, to be given by President of College. 22 71 

Qualifications for, to be such as Board of Trustees 

shall, from time to time, prescribe 23 73 

Qualifications for, prescribed. *p r l 44 227, 228 

ADMITTANCE TO ROOMS. 

When refused, officers may break doors, &c 25 91 

AIKEN, GOV. 

Extract from Message of, 1845. 70 269 

" " 1846. 71 270 

AGE. 

Students to be 14 for admission into Freshman 

class, and 15 for any other class 22 67 

AMENDMENTS. 

To Laws of College ._-_.- 43 226 

AMERICAN ARCHIVES. 

Loaned to Library 64 259 

AMMUNITION AND ARMS. 

Not to be used or kept in College 41 206 

APPROPRIATIONS. 

For College buildings, $50,000 _ 5 8 



102 INDEX. 



Page 5e: 



5 


5 


;: 


25 


11 


30, 32 


14 


::- 


47 


231 


45 


235 


53 


253 


•M 


253 


I- 


300 


5 





APPROPRIATIONS Cmtinned 

F:r Salaries :: Faculty. £5.11 '. annually. ... . 

Pr : fe s a : r of Chemistry, $ 1 .500 c . . 

K Snpport of Student from Orphan House 

Purchase :: the fihenrieal, philosophical and 
-::;::-:::::.- aaaararus :: X: L Heruairiier. 

$1,000.-1 —_-_„-„— 

Cheiiueal apartuient. 85.100 

a Purchase of Library. $5.000 

Library. ani.iLa.llT. 81-1 -0. ana stiriaai :i tui- 
tion fund . 

Furnishing :~: r : ;a_- ::r Library. $4( '. 

■• Expenses ::' t~ : stuaeuts ar:na OrUaan Knuse 

$400 each _ _ 

•• 5upa:r: :: li-llege. a:~ aaair aaaaillT 

ASTBONOMY. 

Professorship of Mathematics. Mechanical Phil : b - 
ophy. Asarinomy and Civil Engineering, estab- 
lished ______ __..__.___ _ a 54 

BACHELOR 

Haw entitled :: the i.aree :: A M . 

BALLS 

Students a:: :: attend, -a: a:: C :aaaara:eaa^a:.-^::h- 

Dutiernaissitn :: President 

BELLINGER. ED0IU1\D. Jr. 

Chuiraaau :: : :a_au:::-T :: re:: :rt law s.__ .__.___. 
BELL RINGER 

T: 1 araar a . . 

Talc aaa:iu:edby Faculty 

BELLES LETTRES'aND ELOCUTION. 

Pr::ess:rshia :: established 20 54 

BOARD OE TRUSTEES. (See Trustees 
BOARD OE SUPERVISION <jr BURSARSHLP. 
T: ::asis: :: Faculty and u^e Trashes ucuaina.- 

ai annually ~l:h rail a :~er _. 

To a - a ii: a : : : aaa: s : : Bairsar monthly ... 

Pr: -risi: as a:: :: be s:ld l:aat It their :>rder 

BONDS. 

Of certain purchasers of lots in Colombia, to be 

Of itaacers ::" C allege. h:~ -; "; r taken .... 

Sureties thereto = >._.....__.__.. 21 64 





127. 125 


41 


;;: 


1 


i 


36 


172 


45 


223 



35 


165 


35 


157 


35 


157 




12 


21 


63 



INDEX. 103 

Page. Sec. 

BONDS. (Continued.) 

Of College Treasurer - 32 139 

Of Librarian 33 145 

Of Bursar _- . 35 166 

Of Marshall.--. 40 197 

BONFIRES. 

Marshall to inform Faculty of, and aid in detect- 

ingoffenders 39 186 

Forbidden 41 212 

BUILDINGS, COLLEGE. 

Appropriations for 5 8 

Tobeinsured 14 38 

To be under care of Marshall 38 184 

BUTLER, GOV. 

Extract from his Message, 1837 62 251 

« " " 1838 63 252 

BY-LAWS. 

May be made by Trustees 4 5 

Enacted 19 

BURSARSHIP AND COMMONS. 

Bursar to be appointed annually by Board of Trus- 
tees, removable by Board of Trustees or Board of 
Supervision, and subject to such rules as Board 

of Trustees shall adopt 35 163 

His salary one thousand dollars 35 164 

Entitled to provisions from Commons hall 35 165 

To give bond 35 166 

To be furnished with funds by Treasurer, to pur- 
chase provisions for Commons, which he shall 
have properly served, and submit his accounts, 

monthly, to Board of Supervision 35 167 

Not to sell provisions, without order 35 167 

Board of Supervision, consisting of Faculty and 
five Trustees named annually, to have entire con- 
trol of Bursarship. 36 168 

And to see that Bursar fulfils his contract 36 169 

Powers of Faculty, as to Bursarship 36 170 

Each student to pay in advance to Treasurer $2 50 

per week for board #36 171 

Bell ringer and 2 servants to board free, and cov- 
ers to be reserved for one Professor and one 
Trustee _ 36 172 



104 INDEX. 

Page. Sec. 

BURSARSHIP AND COMMONS. (Continued.) 

Bill of fare 36 173 

Bursal t • > cultivate garden of Commons hall 37 174 

Professors to attend meals, in monthly rotation, 

and prescribe rules for preservation of order 37 175 

And ask a blessing before every meal 37 176 

Students required to be orderly 37 177 

And not to be wasteful 37 178 

Students shall all board in Commons, except those 
who reside in Columbia, and except in case of 

sickness 37 179 

Regulations as to deductions in case of absence 38 180 

Faculty to make rules for government of Bursar. _ 38 181 

Transient Boarders' in Commons 38 182 

CHAPLAIN. 

Professor of Sacred Literature, to officiate as 20 56 

CERTIFICATE. 

Of admission, to be given to student by President. 22 71 

Of Treasurer, that all College charges are paid, to 

be produced, before degree conferred 30 126 

And of Librarian, that books are returned 33 150 

Of good character, to be produced by applicant for 

admission 44 227 

CHANCELLORS. 

To be Trustees ex officio 3,14 4,40 

CHEMISTRY. 

Appropriation for Professor of 10 26 

CHEMISTRY, MINERALOGY AND GEOLOGY. 

Professorship of, established 20 54 

CHRISTIANITY. 

Professorship of Moral Philosophy, Sacred Litera- 
ture and Evidences of Christianity, established- . 20 54 
CHRISTMAS. 

There to be 3 days holiday at 29 118 

CITY COUNCIL OF CHARLESTON. 

To send two students 47 232 

CIVIL ENGINEERING. 

Professorship of Mathematics, Mechanical Philoso- 
phy, Astronomy and Civil Engineering, estab- 
lished 20 54 



INDEX. 



105 



CLASSES. 

To be Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and Senior. . 22 

To be examined twice a year 23 

Exhibitions of, as Faculty may appoint 23 

Qualifications for admission into 44 

Course of studies in the several 44 

COLLEGE. 

Established, at Columbia, 1801 3 

May confer degrees, on students and others .- . 9 

COLLEGES. 

Several incorporated 77 

COMBINATIONS. 

To oppose Faculty, forbidden 28,41 

COMMENCEMENT. 

To be on 1st Monday in December- 29 

Order of procession at 73 

COMMENCEMENT BALL. 

Not to be held in State House .. 13 

Students not to attend any other 41 

COMMISSIONERS OF COLUMBIA, 

With Trustees, to fix on site of College 6 

To cancel certain bonds 6 

To convey certain lands to Trustees 7 

To convey two more squares 8 

COMMISSIONERS OF ORPHAN HOUSE. 

To select one youth to complete his education in 

College w . 11 

His expenses, how to be defrayed 11 

Vacancies to be filled. 11 

Authorized to draw $800 from Treasury, for ex- 
penses of two students. 99 

COMMITTEE. 

Apppointed to report Laws for College 1 

COMMON PLEAS. 

Judges of, to be Trustees ex officio 4, 9,14 

COMMONS. See Bursarship and Commons. 

COMPTROLLER GENERAL. 

Trustees to "account to him for expenditure of money 
appropriated for College, and he to report to 

Legislature annually 5 

To insure College buildings ' 14 

Report of, as to College disbursements 52 

U 



Sec. 

72 

74 

77 

227,228 

228 

3 
23 



105,210 



119 

273 

37 
209 

10 
12 
13 

18 



30,32 



28 
32 
31 

300 

1 



4,21,40 



8 

38 

239 



100 



INDEX 



Pa- Sec. 

COOPER, Dr. TIIOS. 

His Library 63,64 251 

COSTS, OF SOLICITOR. 

In cases of vagrancy, how to be used 17 16 

CUNNINGTON, \\\M ' 

His bond to be cancelled 6 12 

DEGREES. 

College may confer them, on students and others. - 9 23 

When Faculty to recommend for 120 

To be conferred publicly by President of College. . 121 

Forfeited, by not performing part assigned 30 121 

Or for exhibiting any thing not previously ap- 
proved by President 30 125 

Not to be conferred until all College dues are paid, 30 126 

Of A. M. when to be conferred on Bachelor 30 1 27. 1 28 

Honorary, not to be conferred without 4 months 

notice, unless recommended by Faculty 30 1 29 

DeSAUSSURE, Hon. H. W. 

Extract from Memoir of - 293 

DEVOTIONAL EXERCISES. 

To be performed in Chapel morning and evening. 24 87 

Public Worship to be performed in Chapel, on 

Sunday, and to be attended by students 28 114 

Exceptions as to attendance 28 114 

Prayers to be said in the Chapel, morning and 
evening, during the week, and on Sunday tnorn- 

ing 29 115 

DIPLOMAS. 

To be furnished by Faculty 23 78 

DOGS. 

Not to be kept by students about College 41 206 

DRUM. 

Beating, about College, forbidden 43 219 

DUELLING . _. 40 202 

EATING HOUSES. 

Not to be visited by students- 27 101 

EDUCATION. 

Early legislation as to 75 276 

ELECTIONS. 

Of officers, to be by ballot, a majority of votes neces- 
sary . 20 57 

To be held only at stated meetings, but occasional 
meeting may fill vacancy till stated meeting. _ 12 35 



INDEX 107 

Page. Sec. 

ELECTIONS.— Continued. 

To be only at annual meeting, and when a majority 

of the Board are present 14 41 

ELOCUTION. 

Professorship of Belles Lettres and, established- _ 20 54 

ENGINEERING. 

Professorship of Mathematics, Mechanical Philoso- 
phy, Astronomy, and Civil Engineering, estab- 
lished., ._____- 20 54 

EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY. 

Professorship of Moral Philosophy, Sacred Lit- 
erature and Evidences of Christianity, established 20 54 
EXAMINATIONS. 

Twice a year. Of the Senior class, one within ten 
days preceding the 1st July, and another begin- 
ning three weeks before Commencement. Of 
other classes, after examination of Senior class in 

June, and week before Commencement 23 74 

To be attended by Executive Committee 26 96 

No student admitted to a degree or to a higher 

class who omits to be examined 30 123 

Of applicants for admission 44 227, 228 

Trustees to appoint a committee to attend regular 

examinations of all the classes 70 268 

Visitors appointed to attend final examination of 

Senior class 84 295 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

To be appointed, consisting of President of Col- 
lege and four Trustees, to serve four years, to 
meet monthly, to regulate expenditures from Col- 
lege Treasury, audit and report upon Treasurer's 
accounts, attend examinations, and also to act as 

Library Committee.-,. 26 96 

To approve bond of Bursar 35 166 

To have sheds erected for firewood 39 193 

EXERCISES. 

Of Senior Class, to be prepared six days before 

Commencement 30 124 

Of all the classes, to be at such times as Faculty 

may appoint 46 229 

EXHIBITIONS. 

Of the Senior class, to be twice a year ; of all the 
classes, as Faculty may appoint 23 77 






10S INDEX. 

Page. 
EXPENDITURES 

From College Treasury, to be regulated by Ex- 
ecutive Committee 26 96 

EXPENSES. 

Of student in College — Report of Committee as 

to, in 1S36 . 74 274 

In 1847 75 275 

EXPULSION. (See Faculty, Trustees ) 
FACULTY. 

To enforce the ordinances and By-laws adopted by 
the Trustees for the government of the students, 
by rewarding or censuring or suspending them. _ 5 6 

To report their proceedings in cases of suspension 

of student, to Trustees 12 36 

To proceed against prostitutes and gamblers, under 

the vagrant Act 17 46 

Exempt from military duty 18 47 

Duties of the Professorships to be equalized among 

them 20 55 

Their residences 21 60 

No member of, to pursue, during session, any other 

profession 21 61 

To examine applicants for admission 22 66 

To exercise Freshman and Sophomore classes in 

composition and recitation 23 76 

To appoint exhibitions of all classes 23 77 

To furnish diplomas 23 78 

President to preside at meetings of 23 79 

In case of equal division of, including President, 
President to have casting vote, and to deliver the 
result of their opinions, and pronounce senten- 
ces against students 24 80 

In absence of President, to appoint one from among 

themselves to perform his duties 24 81 

To meet weekly, and. on emergencies, on call of 

President or any member 24 82 

May call other officers of College to their assistance, 24 83 

Not to debate questions of College government or 
discipline in presence of student, nor the result of 
their debate be made known without their order 24 84 

To assign rooms to Tutors 24 85 

In case of riot or other disturbance, to repair in- 
stantly to the spot, and suppress it _ , 24 86 



INDEX. 109 

Page, Sec. 

FACULTY. (Continued.) 

To cause devotional exercises to be performed in 
the Chapel, morning and evening 24 87 

Each member of, to visit daily the portion of the 
tenements assigned him, and report to Faculty 
at weekly meeting 24 88 

To keep a registry of the admission, dismission, 

graduation, &c. of students 25 89 

To appoint a secretary, and his duty 25 90, 3, 4, 5 

When refused admittance to rooms, may break doors 25 91 

To appoint a Monitor quarterly 26 97 

To admonish, suspend, and report for expulsion, at 

their discretion 27 99 

Students not to attend any other teacher without 

permission of 28 106 

To cause rooms of students to be kept clean 28 107 

To direct the order in which students shall enter, be 
seated in, and leave, Chapel and other public 
rooms 28 109 

To prescribe text books 28 113 

To cause prayers to be said in Chapel every 
morning and evening during the week, and on 
Sunday morning 29 115 

To confer the honors and recommend for degrees, 
immediately after examination of Senior class, 
in November ; 29 120 

Not to admit any student to a degree or to a higher 

class, who omits to be examined 30 123 

Student leaving college by order of parent or guar- 
dian, without consent of Faculty, to lose his 
standing in his class 30 123 

To assign, immediately after Commencement, the 

students' rooms 31 132 

Which are not to be changed or damaged 31 133 

In cases of damage to college rooms or premises, to 
assess, and in case of non-payment, further pun- 
ish, the student convicted 31 131 

No student to make any alteration in his room with- 
out consent of 32 135 

May assign rooms to graduates 32 1 36 

Not to sign diploma without certificate of Librari- 
an that graduate has returned all books 33 150 



110 INDEX. 

Page. Sec. 

FACULTY. (Continued.) 

May allow students preparing compositions, an ex- 
tra number of books from Library - 34 151 

To enforce Library regulations, even as to Trustees 34 159 

To constitute, with 5 Trustees named annually, 

Board of Supervision of Bursarship 35,36 163,168 

Their powers as to Bursarship 36 170 

To make rules for government of Bursar 38 181 

To appoint a College Marshall 38 183 

Who shall report to them any injury to College 

buildings, grounds, &c ! 38 184 

And report their condition weekly ^ 38 185 

And inform Faculty of bonfires and other disturban- s 

ces, and aid in suppressing them 39 186 

Marshall to be under direction of Faculty 39 192 

Who shall assign him a residence in College build- 
ings 39 194 

To have the Campus gate opened and shut 39 196 

To punish students, by admonition, information to 

parent or guardian, suspension or expulsion 40 199 

May degrade student to an inferior class, or refuse 

him promotion 40 199 

Offences not provided for, to be punished at discre- 
tion of. 40 200 

May remove from College any student of bad gen- 
eral deportment ^_ 40 201 

To punish students for duelling 40 202 

And for gaming, profane or obscene language, lying, 
stealing, drunkenness, or riotous, disorderly or 

immoral conduct 40 203 

And for insulting or striking any officer of college, 41 204 

And for keeping deadly weapons 41 205 

And for using or keeping spirituous liquors, dogs, 
arms or ammunition, or keeping or hiring a horse, 

mule or servant : 41 206 

And for playing on musical instruments on Sunday, 41 207 

And for entertaining company in their rooms 41 208 

And for attending balls, except commencement 41 209 

And for combinations to oppose Faculty 41 210 

And for making bonfires, &c 41 212 

And for blowing horns or trumpets, beating drums. 

riding horses, &c __»-_____._ =. 43 219 



INDEX. Ill 

Page. Sec, 

FACULTY. (Continued.) 

And for harboring student who had been ordered 

to leave college 43 220 

As to calling on students to give information in ca- 
ses of misdemeanor, riot, &c 42 213,4,5,6,7 

Convicting student of offence authorizing expulsion, 
to suspend and order him from College, and re- 
port to Trustees 42 218 

May employ two additional servants 43 222 

And a bell man 43 223 

To make all necessary rules to carry College laws 

into effect 43 224 

To examine applicants for admission- 44 227,228 

To prepare a system for public schools 51 238 

List of, 1847 100 301 

See Officers of College. 

FEES of College 31 130 

FIRE. 

Students to be careful as to 32 137 

FIREWOOD. 

To be purchased by Marshall 39 191 

FRESHMAN CLASS. 

Applicants for admission into, to be 14 years of age 22 67 

To be examined, twice a year 23 74 

To be exercised in English composition and recita- 
tion 23 76 

Qualifications for admission into 44 227,228 

Studiesof- . 44 228 

FUEL. 

Assessment for, to be paid in advance 22 68 

GARDEN. 

Of Commons hall, to be cultivated by Bursur 37 174 

GATE. 

Servant to open and shut it, under direction of Mar- 
shall, according to orders of Faculty 39 196 

GEOGRAPHY. 

More knowledge of, will be. required of applicants for 

admission 46 230 

GEOLOGY. 

Professorship of Chemistry, Mineralogy and Geol- 
ogy, established „ 20 54 



112 INDEX. 

Page. Sec. 

GOVERNOR. 

To be Trustee ex officio 3,14 4,40 

To be President of Board of Trustees 19 48 

GRADUATES. 

Faculty may assign rooms to them, they paying $10 

for use of Library 32 136 

GREEK LITERATURE. 

Professorship of, established , 20 34 

GROG SHOPS. 

Not to be visited by Students -. 27 101 

GUARDIAN. (See Parent or Guardian.) 
HAMILTON, GOV. 

Extract from Message of, 1832 . 52 241 

HAMMOND, GOV. 

Extract from Message of, 1843 66 264 

" " " 1844 68 265 

HAYNE, GOV. 

Extract from Message.of, 1833 52 242 

HENEGAN, GOV. 

Extract from Message of, 1840 -„ -_„_-_ 64 257 

HISTORY. 

Professorship of History, Political Philosophy and 

Economy, established 20 54 

More knowledge of, will be required of applicants 

for admission , 46 230 

HOLYDAY. 

Of three days, at Christmas 29 118 

HONORS. 

When to be conferred, and how to be determined. . 29, 30 120, 122 

Forfeited by not performing part assigned 30 124 

HORN, 

Not to be kept or blown by students 43 219 

HORSE OR MULE. 

Not to be hired or kept by students 41 206 

Not to be ridden about College in a disturbing man- 
ner 43 219 

HOTELS. 

Students not to visit them ,_ 27 100 

INSURANCE. 

College buildings to be insured 14 38 

No longer insured 14 

JENKINS, HON. C. J. 

Extract from Address by.. _„___„_» .___„._„_ 94 298 



INDEX. 113 

Page. Sec. 

JOHNSON, GOV. 

Extract from Message of, 1847 72 272 

JUDGES. 

Of Law and Equity, Trustees ex officio 3,14 4, 40 

JUNIOR CLASS. 

Established 22 72 

Applicants for admission into, to be 15 years of age, 22 67 

And to be well acquainted with preparatory studies, 22 66 

To be examined twice a year 23 74 

Qualifications for admission into - 44 227, 228 

Course of studies in 45 228 

JUSTICE. 

Of Peace or Quorum, on requisition of Faculty, to 
issue warrant for apprehension and trial of pros- 
titutes and gamblers, as vagrants _. 17 46 

KEYS. 

Students to leave them with Marshall, at end of ses- 
sion 39 195 

LABORATORY. 

Faculty may employ servant for 43 222 

LAW. 

Professoiiehip of 47 233 

LAWS OF COLLEGE. 

Committee appointed to prepare and report 1 1 

Copy of, to be given to student on admission 22 71 

Students to make themselves acquainted with 28 112 

Faculty to make all necessary rules to carry them in- 
to effect ... . 43 224 

Not to be altered, or new ones made, except with six 

days' notice, and by vote of two-thirds ... 43 226 

LEGARE, H. S. 

Extract from Eulogy on _ _. 80 291 

LEGISLATURE. 

To nominate 13 Trustees of College 3 4 

To elect 20 Trustees of College- __ .___ 14 40 

L'HERMINIER, MR. 

$1000 appropriated for purchase of his chemical, phi- 
losophical and mincralogical apparatus 14 39 

LIBRARY AND LIBRARIAN. 

Appropriation for Library 7 . 15 

Executive Committee to be also Library Coin mil tee, 26 96 

Fee for use of Library 31 130 

15 



114 INDEX. 

Page. Sec, 
LIBRARY AND LIBRARIAN. (Continued.) 

Resident graduates to pay ten dollars for use of 32 136 

Librarian to be appointed by Trustees, and to attend 

daily from 8 to 1 o'clock 33 144 

To give bond __._ 33 145 

To keep Library in neat order, and see that books 

are returned ; . , 33 146 

Who may take out books - ". 33 147 

President, Professors and Tutors entitled to use of 

Library at any hour 33 148 

Librarian to note all books taken out 33 149 

Diploma not to be signed without certificate of Li- 
brarian that books are returned 33 150 

How many books may be taken at once * _ 34 151 

Recent periodicals not to be kept longer than 3 days, 34 152 

In case of loss of or damage to books 34 153 

Books not to be kept by students longer than two 

weeks, without special permission of President. _ 34 154 

Students not to lend Library books . 34 155 

To preserve decorum in Library 34 156 

Books not to be carried beyond vicinity of Columbia, 34 157 

No lamp or candle to be carried into the Library. _ 34 158 
Regulations of Library to be enforced by Faculty, 

even in the case of Trustees , 34 159 

Rare books to be withheld from circulation 34 160 

A blank book to be kept, in which visitors and others 

may enter suggestions as to purchase of books. . 34 161 

Librarian to hold office one year; his salary $600. _ 35 162 

Appropriation for Library 63 253 

American Archives loaned to Library 64 259 

Various books transferred to Library 66 262 

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. 

To be Trustee ex officio , 3,14 4,40 

In absence of Governor, to preside at the Board. _ 19 48 

LOGIC. 

Professorship of Logic, Rhetoric, Mental Philosophy 

and Physiology, established 20 54 

MANNING, COL. JOHN L. 

Scholarship established by him 81 292 

MARSHALL. 

To be appointed by Faculty, his salary and duties, 38 183 to 196 

His bond.. - — „„_.„- — _ — „-..-_„.--.. 40 197 



INDEX. 115 

Page. Sec. 

MASTER OF ARTS. 

Degree of, when to be conferred on Bachelor-.-- 30 127,128 

MATHEMATICS. 

Professorship of Mathematics, Mechanical Philoso- 
phy, Astronomy and Civil Engineering, estab- 
lished. -'-- 20 54 

MAXCY, PRESIDENT. 

Addressby, 1816 __- 85 296 

McDUFFIE, GOV. 

Extract from Message of, 1835 54 247 

" " « 1836 58 250 

McMULLAN'S REPORTS. 

. Extract from, as to Vagrant Act 79 290 

MEETING- OF TRUSTEES. 

Stated, on first Wednesday in December ; occasion- 
al, may be called by President of College and 

four Trustees . . 4 5 

Stated meeting changed to fourth Monday in No- 
vember 9 22 

Changed to Wednesday after fourth Monday in 

November 12 34 

To meet also on Wednesday after first Monday in 

May 19 50 

President of Board and five Trustees may call a 

special meeting „ 19 50 

MEETING OF STUDENTS. 

Not to be held without permission of President 28 105 

MEMMINGER, C. G. 

Extract from Address by . 97 299 

MILITARY DUTY. 

Faculty and Students exempt from 18 47 

MILLS'S STATISTICS. 

Extract from .___*_ 78 288 

MINERALOGY. 

Professorship of Chemistry, Mineralogy and Geology, 

established 20 54 

MONITOR. 

To be appointed by Faculty, and his duty 26 97 

MORAL PHILOSOPHY. 

Professorship of Moral Philosophy, Sacred Litera- 
ture and Evidences of Christianity, established 20 54 
MULE. (See Horse.) 



116 INDEX. 

Page. Sec. 

MUSICAL INSTRUMENT. 

Students not to play on, on Sunday -,_- 41 207 

NOBLE, GOV. 

Extract from Message of, 1839 1 _.__ 64 256 

OFFICERS OF COLLEGE. 

To be elected and removed by Trustees 4 5 

To be appointed only at annual meeting of Trus- 
tees, and when a majority of the Board are pres- 
ent . , 14 41 

May be dismissed by Trustees 15 43 

To consist of President, Professors and such other 

officers as Board of Trustees may appoint. „ 20 54 

To be elected by ballot, a majority of votes necessa- 
ry to a choice 20 57 

To hold their offices during pleasure of Board of 

Trustees _'_______ 20 58 

Not to resign without giving one year's notice. _ 21 59 
To have apartments assigned and to reside in the 
College buildings, and keep their premises in re- 
pair ___ _ %\ 60 

Their bonds __ 21 63 64 

To enforce among the Students every moral and 

religious duty 21 65 

To attend on call of Faculty, and give advice and 

assistance 24 83 

In case of riot or disturbance to repair to the spot 

and suppress it ._ ._ 24 86 

When refused admittance to rooms, may break doors 25 91 

Student insulting or striking one, to be suspended 

or expelled 41 204 

Listof, 1847___ . 100 301 

(See Faculty, Professors.) 
ORPHAN HOUSE. (See Commissioners of Orphan 

House.) 
PARENT OR GUARDIAN. 

Circular to be sent to, on admission of student 25 93 

Also monthly 25 94 

To be informed, in case of suspension. _ : .. 26 94 

At request of, student excused from attending wor- 
ship in Chapel on Sunday . 28 114 

Student leaving College by order of, without consent 

of Faculty, to lose his standing in his class.. --'.,. 30 123 



INDEX. 117 

Sec. 



PARENT OR GUARDIAN. (Continued.) 

Student being convicted of damaging College rooms 

or premises, Secretary of Faculty to inform 31 134 

PERIODICALS. 

Recent, not to be kept longer than 3 days 34 152 

PHIL. AND MAT. APPARATUS. 

Appropriation for 7 15 

PHYSIOLOGY. 

Professorship of Logic, Rhetoric, Mental Philosophy 

and Physiology, established 20 54 

PICKENS, EZEKIEL. 

His bond to be cancelled 7 12 

POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. 

Professorship of History, Political Philosophy and 

Economy, established 20 54 

PRAYERS. (See Devotional Exercises.) 
PRESIDENT OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 

And 10 Trustees, a quorum at stated meeting 4 5 

And 6 Trustees, a quorum at occasional meeting. .. 4 5 

Not attending, one pro tern, may be appointed- 8 17 

The Governor to be 19 48 

In his absence, the Lieutenant Governor, the Presi- 
dent of the Senate, or the Speaker of the House 19 48 
In their absence, a pro tern, appointment to be made 19 48 

With 5 Trustees, may call special meeting 19 50 

PRESIDENT OF COLLEGE. 

With four Trustees, may call occasional meetings of 

Board of Trustees.. 4 5 

To be head of the Faculty 4 6 

To be appointed only at annual meeting of Trustees, 

and when a majority of the Board are present. _ 14 41 

To proceed against prostitutes and gamblers, under 

the Vagrant Act „ 17 46 

Exempt from military duty 18 41 

To perform the duties of one of the Professorships, 20 55 

To be elected by ballot, a majority of votes of those 

present necessary to a choice 20 57 

To hold office during pleasure of Board of Trustees, 20 58 

Not to resign without giving one year's notice 21 59 

To reside in buildings assigned him, and keep the 

premises in repair 21 60 



US INDEX. 



Page, Sec. 



PRESIDENT OF COLLEGE. (Continued.) 

Nor to pursue, for reward, during session, any other 

profession _• 21 61 

To enforce among The students every moral and re- 
ligious duty _- 21 65 

To give copy of laws and certificate of admission to 

each student 22 71 

To be chief executive officer of College, and preside 

at ail meetings of Faculty 23 79 

In case the Faculty, including himself, be equally di- 
vided, to have casting vote, and to pronounce all 
sentences against students 24 SO 

In case of absence of. Faculty to appoint one from 
among themselves to perform his duties 

May call meeting of Faculty, on emergency 

To report to Board of Trustees at every half yearly 
meeting 

To be chairman of Executive Committee 

Students not to visit Taverns, and places of public 
amusement, without permission of 

JNor to hold class or other meetings 

■May. at request of parent or guardian, excuse student 
from attending worship in the Chapel on Sunday . 

To confer the degrees at Commencement 

Exercises of Seniors to be submitted to him six days 

before Commencement 30 124 

And nothing to be exhibited on the stage that he 
has not approved 

Not to confer degrees till College charges are paid. 

To direct studies of resident graduates 

Entitled to use of Library 

May allow student to keep books from Library long- 
er than stated time 

May permit student to board or lodge out of College. 
in case of sickness . 

Students to give notice to. as to absence from Com- 
mons 

May, with assent of Faculty, remove from College 
any student of bad general deportment 

No student to use or keep in College any spirituous 
liquors, dogs, arms or ammunition, or keep or hire 
a horse, mule or servant, without permission of- - 41 206 



24 


81 


24 


82 


25 


92 


26 


96 


27 


100 


28 


105 


28 


114 


29 


121 



30 


125 


30 


126 


30 


128 


33 


147. 148 


34 


154 


37 


179 


38 


180 


40 


201 



INDEX. 119 

Page. Sec. 

PRESIDENT OF COLLEGE. (Continued.) 

Or attend balls 41 209 

Or leave the town of Columbia 41 211 

May, during vacation, exclude any student who dis- 
turbs the Campus 43 225 

PRESIDENT OF SENATE. 

To be Trustee ex officio 3, 14 4, 40 

In absence of Governor and Lieutenant Governor, 

to be President of Board of Trustees 19 48 

PRESTON, HON. W. C. 

Extract from his Eulogy on H. S. Legare 80 29 1 

His Inaugural Address 90 297 

PROFESSORS. 

Not to be Trustees 4 6 

To be appointed only at annual meeting of Trustees, 

and when a majority of the Board are present 14 41 

To be elected by Trustees, by ballot, a majority of 

votes necessary 20 57 

To reside in buildings assigned, and keep their pre- 
mises in repair . 

Hereafter elected, to deliver a public address 

Entitled to use of Library 

To attend meals in Commons in monthly rotation, 
and prescribe rules for the preservation of order. _ 

To ask a blessing before every meal 

May allow persons not students to attend Lectures, 
(See Officers of College, Faculty.) 
PROFESSORSHIPS. 

Established 20 54 

PROSODY. 

More knowledge of, will be required in applicants 

for admission 46 230 

PUBLIC AMUSEMENT. 

Places of, not to be visited by students, without per- 
mission of President 27 100 

PUNISHMENTS. 

To be addressed to the sense of duty, and to the 

principles of honor and shame. 40 198 

To be by admonition, information to parent or guar- 
dian, suspension or expulsion 40 {()() 

QUORUM. 

At stated meetings, President of Board and ten 



21 


60 


21 


62 


33 


147, 148 


37 


175 


37 


176 


43 


221 



120 INDEX. 



: :: C _ tinned.) 

1 1 stees : occasional meeting. President and 

rnrf rk __ _ 


4 
14 

;: 

25 

1 
74 
47 

45 
50 
52 

r ; 

53 
-\ 
58 

A 

64 

-:-: 

-:■: 

n 

71 
21 

1 
SI 


6 


en no quorum, those attending mav appoint a 
Chairman, and meet and adjourn, from time to 
time. -. _ 




Nine members to constitute a quorum, rz : e pt : : : r the 
appointment of an officer, when a majority of the 

Board must be present 

RAMSAY'S HISTORY OF SOUTH CAROLJUA 

Extract from.. 


■' M 


RECITATIONS 

_ le at hours prescribed 

TLree iiilv. ;: •.-; . ;_ i-lzss : _-.- : "_ * : ::.: ..." mniiii. 
REGISTER * 

Students, k be kept — . 

REPORT C 7 ; )MMITTEE. 

: Trustees, to prepare laws 

astc Expenses. 1836 

Of Le^isl-TZTr. 1.823 . 

1824 

1825 


229 
ffi 

2 
274 

236 
237 

2 I 




1834 - •■._-. _._ 


2 : 


.. 


335 .. 


2 14 


;: : 




245 
248 


.. 


1838 ■• •• . 


253 




184C ■• ■•-_ .-_ . 


258 


.. 


1841 . ._. 


2SS 




1842 •■ ■■ 


262 


.. 


- ■•__ 


a : 


.. 


1844 

1 ; - ' • "erred to 


u 






•;— 


1846. 

RESIGNATION 

Nc :~:e: fcc resign without giving one _ -:: ; notice, 
RESOLUTIONS 

". : Trustee* appointing Committee to prepare Laws 
1846. in regard tc Scholarship estab- 
lished by Col J.I Mashwg...__ __L. 


271 

'. 

1 

292 



INDEX. 

RESOLUTIONS. (Continued.) 

Of Trustees, 1847, appinting Visitors to attend final 

examination of Senior Class 

Submitted to Board of Trustees, to be in writing, if 

any member requires it. _ 

Of Legislature, 1823, as to Professorship of law.. 
" 1825, requesting Faculty to prepare 

" a system for Public Schools 

" 1835, concerning bawdy and gaming 

" houses in Columbia 

" 1836, as to renewals of Charters — 

REWARDS AND PUNISHMENTS. {See Punish- 
ments.) 
RHETORIC. 

Professorship of Logic, Rhetoric, Mental Philoso- 
phy and Physiology, established 

RICHARDSON, GOV. 

Extract from Message of, 1841 

« " « 1842 

RIOT. 

In case of 

ROMAN LITERATURE. 

Professorship of, established 

ROOMS OF STUDENTS 

RULES AND REGULATIONS. 

- Faculty may make all necessary, to carry College 

laws into effect 

SACRED LITERATURE. 

Professorship of Moral Philosophy, Sacred Litera- 
ture, and Evidences of Christianity, established. 
SALARIES. 

Of Faculty, $6000 yearly appropriated 

Of Secretaty of Board of Trustees 

Of Secretary of Faculty 

Of Treasurer 

Of Librarian 

Of Bursar 

Of Marshall 

Treasurer to pay 

SECRETARY OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES, 

To be elected by ballot, to give bond for perform- 
ance of his duties, and receive a salary of $250 _ 
To provide books, in which he shall keep a minute 

£6 



Page. 

84 

19 
47 

51 

53 

58 



121 

Sec. 

295 

49 
233 

238 

246 
249 



20 

65 
a 

24 



54 

260 
261 

86 



20 54 

31 132,3,4,5,6,7 



43 



20 



224 



54 



5 


8 


19 


51 


26 


95 


32 


138 


35 


162 


35 


164 


38 


183 


32 


143 



19 



51 



122 



INDEX 



SECRETARY OE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. (Con.) 
of the proceedings of the Board, and record com- 
munications from the President and Professors of 

the College, with an index 

To file all com m unications; and at each meeting read 

the journal of the preceding meeting . 

SECRETARY OF FACULTY. . 

Appointed by them, to keep a journal of their trans- 
actions, which shall be laid before the Trustees 
at their annual meeting, and be at all times sub- 
ject to the inspection of any Trustee 

On admission of student, to transmit a circular to 
parent or guardian, giving all necessary informa- 
tion concerning College 

Also a monthly statement of delinquencies of son or 

ward . 

Also in case of suspension 

His compensation 

Student being convicted of damaging College rooms 

or premises, to inform parent or guardian 

SENIOB CLASS. 

Established 

Those admitted into, to be 15 years of age 

And well acquainted with preparatory studies 

To be examined twice a year 

Two exhibitions of. yearly 

Their exercises to be prepared six days before Com- 
mencement 

Qualifications for admission into . 

Course of studies in 

Visitors to be appointed to attend final examination of 
SERVANTS. 

Board of two to be defrayed out of Commons rand. 

To be under supervision of Marshall 

2s one but those of 'College and its officers to be em- 
ployed about College ... 

To wear a badge , 

Xone to be kept or hired by students 

Faculty may employ two additional 

SESSION. 

When to begin and terminate. __.___- 

To be divided into three quarters. __^_^__ r — -' — : 



Page. Sec. 

19 52 

20 53 



90 



93 



25 


94 




94 


26 


95 



134 



22 


72 


22 


67 


22 


66 


23 


74 


23 


77 


30 


124 


44 


227. 22S 


45 


228 


54 




36 


172 


39 


188 


39 


189 


39 


190 


41 


206 


43 


222 


29 


116 


29 


117 



INDEX 123 

Page. Sec. 

SMITH, BARTLEE. 

His bond to be cancelled . ------- 7 ' 12 

SMITH, THOMAS RHETT. 

His bond to be cancelled -._-- — __ _. 7 12 

SMOKING. 

Forbidden in public rooms of College, Campus or 

streets-. ------ - - — -_ — — 27 102 

SOLICITOR. 

To proceed against prostitutes and gamblers, under 

Vagrant Act - _.. 17 46 

His tax costs, $300, to be used in enforcing that Act 17 46 

SOPHOMORE CLASS. 

Established - . 22 72 

Those admitted into, to be 15 years of age 22 67 

And well acquainted with preparatory studies 22 66 

To be examined twice a year ._—__ 23 74 

To be exercised in composition and recitation 23 76 

Qualifications for admission into u 44 227, 228 

Course of studies in __-._ 45 228 

SPEAKER OF HOUSE. 

To be Trustee ex officio 3,14 4,40 

In absence of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and 
President of Senate, to preside at Board of Trus- 
tees --. 19 48 

SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS. 

Not to be used or kept in College 41 206 

STUDENTS. 

Faculty to enforce the College laws, by rewarding, 

censuring or suspending 5 6 

In cases of suspension, Faculty to report their pro- 
ceedings to Trustees, who may confirm or reverse 

the sentence 12 36 

Exempt from military duty 18 47 

Every moral and religious duty to be enforced 

among them 21 65 

Applicants for admission, to be examined 22 66 

To be 14 years of age for the Freshman class, and 

15 for any other 22 67 

To pay in advance to Treasurer 22 68,69,70 

To be furnished with copy of laws, and certificate 

of admission 22 71 

To be divided into four classes 22 72 



* 



124 INDEX. 

Page. Sec. 

STUDENTS. (Continued.) 

Not to be present at debates of Faculty ___-»-'- 24 84 

To attend devotional exercises in Chapel 24 87 

To be registered ~__ 25 89 

Not to refuse admittance to officers charged with 

visiting rooms 25 91 

Monthly statement of conduct of, to be sent to pa- 
rent or guardian _-_ 25 94 

Who is also to be notified in case of suspension 26 94 

Those often noted on the Monitor's book, to be ad- 
monished, and if they do not reform, suspended, 

and reported for expulsion 26 97 

Daily course of study 27 98 

In case of neglect of study — . 27 99 

Not to visit taverns or places of public amusement, 

without permission of President _= 27 100 

Not to visit eating houses or grog shops - 27 101 

Not to smoke in the public rooms of College, the 

Campus or streets 27 102 

To abstain from vicious, immoral and irregular con- 
duct, and always behave as gentlemen 27 103 

To be uncovered in Chapel, and in lecture and di- 
ning rooms 27 104 

Not to hold class or other meetings, without per- 
mission of President «. . 28 105 

Not to attend other teachers, without permission of 

Faculty 28 106 

To keep their apartments clean . 28 107 

To obey, and be respectful to, their instructors, neat 
in person, courteous in conduct ; not to enter 
Chapel or recitation rooms without being fully 

dressed, and to be decorous there. - 28 108 

To be seated in, and leave, the Chapel and other 
public rooms, in such order as Faculty shall di- 
rect . 28 109 

Not to use tobacco in, or otherwise deface, the pub- 
lic or recitation rooms 28 110 

Not to leave their rooms during hours of study — 28 111 

To make themselves acquainted with the Laws of 

College . 28 112 

To provide text books.. fc _.__ .____..-„__.___- 28 113 





125 


»age. 


. Sec. 


28 


114 


29 


115 



30 


124, 125 


30 


126 


31 


131 


31 


132 


31 


133 



INDEX. 

STUDENTS. (Continued.) 

To attend worship in Chapel on Sunday, except in 

certain cases 

To attend prayers in Chapel 

Omitting to be examined at the times required by 
law, not to be admitted to a degree or to a higher 
class. Leaving College, by order of parent or 
guardian, without informing Faculty, to lose 

standing in their class 30 123 

Exercises of graduates, to be prepared six days be- - 
fore Commencement, and submitted to President, 
and any one not performing the part assigned 
him, or exhibiting any thing not approved by 

President, the degree shall not be conferred 

Before graduating, to produce certificate of Treasu- 
rer that College charges are paid 

Treasurer to settle with, at end of session 

Rooms to be assigned to 

Which are not to be removed from or damaged 

In case of injury by, to rooms or College premises, 
to be charged with expense of repairs, and an ac- 
count thereof be sent to parent or guardian, 
on non-payment of which, to be suspended, and 
be subject to such other punishment as Faculty 

may inflict 

Not to alter their rooms or fire places 

To be careful about fire 

Entitled to use of Library 

Before graduating, to produce Librarian's certifi- 
cate that books are returned 

How many books may be taken at once by 

In case of loss of or damage to books by 

How long books may be kept by 

Not to lend books 

To be decorous in the Library 

To pay to Treasurer, quarterly, in advance, $2 50 

per week for board in Commons 

Dying or leaving College, amount to be refunded. . 

To behave with propriety in Dining hall 

Not to waste provisions 

To board in Commons, except those who reside in 

Columbia, and except in case of sickness 37 179 



31 


134 


32 


135 


32 


137 


33 


147 


33 


150 


34 


151 


34 


153 


34 


154 


34 


155 


34 


156 


36 


171 


36 


171 


37 


177 


37 


178 



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INDEX. 127 

Page. Sec. 

STUDENTS. (Continued.) 

Any Student disturbing the quiet of the College du- 
ring vacation, may be excluded 43 225 

Qualifications for admission of 44, 227, 228 

Course of studies of, in the several classes. _ 44 228 

STUDIES. 

Of the several Classes 44 228 

STUDY. 

Times of— 27 98 

SUNDAY. 

Students not to play on musical instruments on, and 

to abstain from diversions 41 207 

SURETIES. 

To bonds of College Officers 21 64 

SUSPENSION. See Faculty, Trustees. 
TAVERNS. 

Students not to visit them 27 100 

TEXT BOOKS. 

To be provided by students 28 113 

Of the several classes 44 228 

TOBACCO. 

Not to be used by students in public 28 110 

TREASURER. 

Students, on admission, to pay to him certain sums 

in advance 

His accounts to be audited by Executive Commit- 
tee 

At close of session, to refund to students overpaying, 

To be elected annually, salary $500 

To give bond 

To receive all monies which students are required 

to pay 32 140 

To keep an account of tuition fund, and make no 
disbursement without order of Board of Trustees 

To report annually to Board of Trustees 

To pay salaries as provided for 

To take charge of bond of Bursar, and report an- 
nually thereon 

To advance funds to Bursar 

To receive board of students in Commons, and re- 
fund, in certain cases 

To receive fund for purchase of lire-wood 



22 


68,69 


26 


96 


31 


131 


32 


138 


32 


139 



32 


141 


32 


142 


32 


143 


35 


166 


35 


167 


36 


171 


39 


191 



12S INDEX. 

Page, Sec 

TROTTI. COL. S. W. 

Extract from Address by 82 294 

TRUMPET. 

Not to be kept or blown about College 42 219 

TRUSTEES, BOARD OF. 

(Legislative Enactments.) 

Appointed 3 4 

To continue in office' four years 3 4 

Incorporated, by the name of " The Trustees of the 
South Carolina College" with perpetual succes- 
sion 4 4 

May hold lands and tenements, personal property. 

money. &c. in trust for the use of College 4 4 

To meet on first Wednesday in December 4 5 

President of College and four Trustees may call oc- 
casional meetings 4 5 

President of Board and ten Trustees a quorum at 

stated meetings 4 5 

To fill up. by ballot, vacancies in the Board 4 5 

President of Board and six Trustees a quorum at 

occasional meetings 4 5 

To transact all the business of the College, elect the 
officers, fix their salaries, remove them for miscon- 
duct, prescribe the course of studies to be pursued 
by the students, and enact ordinances and by-laws 

for the government of the College 4 5 

May expel students 5 6 

To have a common seal 5 7 

May sue and be sued 5 7 

May hold or sell lands, tenements, chattels. &c 5 7 

Vested with ample powers, as a body corporate, to 

be exercised for the benefit of the College 5 7 

To draw B50.000 from the Treasury, to erect Col- 
lege buildings 

And 86000 yearly, for salaries of Faculty 

To account to Comptroller annually 

To select site for College 

Certain lands in Columbia to be conveyed to them. 

May enclose certain streets 

Until salaries of Faculty commence, may use that 
fund for purchasing philosophical and mathemati- 
cal apparatus and library 7 15 



D 


a 


5 


8 


5 


8 


6 


10 


7 


13 


7 


14 



9 


19,20 


9 


21 


9 


22 


9 


23 



INDEX. 129 

Page. Sec. 

TRUSTEES, BOARD OR (Continued.) 

When no quorum, those attending may appoint a 

chairman and meet and adjourn from time to time 8 16 

President not attending, may elect a President pro 

tern 8 17 

Two squares of land to be conveyed to them, which, 
with other squares, and intervening streets, they 

may enclose 8 18 

Certain persons having acted as Trustees, by reason 
of a variance between the enrolled and printed 
copy of the Act establishing the College, their 

acts legalized 

Judges of Court of Common Pleas made Trustees 

ex officio 

Stated meeting changed to fourth Monday in No- 
vember 

May confer degrees 

To be elected by joint ballot of both branches of 

Legislature 9 24 

To meet on Wednesday after fourth Monday in No- 
vember-- 12 34 

To fill no vacancy in the officers of the College ex- 
cept at stated meeting, but may fill such vacancy 

at occasional meeting, until stated meeting 12 35 

Faculty to report to them their proceedings in cases 
of suspension, and Trustees may restore suspend- 
ed student 12 36 

To consist of the Governor and Lieutenant Gover- 
nor of the State, the President of the Senate, the 
Speaker of the House of Representatives, the 
Judges of the Court of Appeals, the Circuit Judges 
of the Court of Law, and the Chancellors, ex of- 
ficio, together with twenty other persons to be 
elected by joint ballot of the Senate and House 
of Representatives, to continue in office four years, 

and until others shall be elected 14 40 

Nine to constitute a quorum, except for election of 
an officer of College, which shall be done only at 
annual meeting, with a majority of Board present 14 41 
Authorized, by subpoena, rule and attachment, to 
compel witnesses to appear and testify, and pa- 
pers to be produced _ 15 42 

17 



130 INDEX. 

Page. Sec. 

TRUSTEES, BOARD OF, (Continued.) 

May dismiss any officer of College _„-___»_ 15 43 

Certain squares and lots vested in 16 45 

By-Laws. 

The G-overnor to be President of the Board ; in case 
of his absence, the Lieutenant G-overnor, Presi- 
dent of Senate or Speaker of House ; in their 
absence a pro tem. appointment to be made . 19 48 

The Chair to be addressed standing and uncovered 19 49 

All motions, propositions and resolutions submitted, 

to be in writing, if any member requires it._ __ _ 19 49 

To meet also on Wednesday after 1st Monday in 

May, in every year fJ 19 50 

President and five members may call special' meet- 
ing 19 50 

Their Secretary, and his duties 19 51,52,53 

To determine what Professors and other officers 

shall be appointed 20 54 

To assign and equalize the duties of the President 

and Professors - _. 20 55 

To elect all officers by ballot, a majority of votes ne- 
cessary to a choice it- 20 57 

President, Professors an<J other officers to hold their 

places during pleasure of 20 58 

And not to resign, without consent of, except after 

one year's notice \ 21 59 

To cause every Professor hereafter elected to deliv- 
er an address 21 62 

To take bonds from officers of College 21 63 64 

To prescribe, from time to time, the qualifications for 

admission, and course of studies- 23 73 

Journal of Faculty to be laid before them annually 25 90 

President of College to report to them at every half 

yearly meeting, i 25 92 

To appoint on Executive Committee, and their duty 26 96 

Not to confer honorary degrees without four months' 

notice, unless recommended by Faculty ."- 30 129 

To elect College Treasurer annually 32 138 

And take his bond — : - 32 139 

Treasurer to make no disbursement without order 

of --.__. 32 141 

Treasurer to report annually to. _■_.___-«__---_ - 32 1 42 



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Page. Sec. 

TRUSTEES, BOABD OF. (Continued.) 

To appoint a Librarian I 33 144 

To take his bond 33 145 

Entitled to use of Library 34 147 

Librarian to lay before them suggestions as to pur- • 
chase of books 34 161 

To appoint Bursar annually, and adopt rules for 

regulation of Bursarship 35 163 

To nominate 5 Trustees annually, to form, with 

Faculty, Board of Supervision of Bursarship 36 168 

Faculty to report to them cases for expulsion. 42 218 

No new laws to be made, or present laws altered, 
except on six, days notice, and by a vote of two 
thirds „__' 43 226 

Resolutions of, appointing Visitors to attend final 

examination of Senior class i .. 84 295 

Listof, 1847 100 301 

TUITION FEE. 

To be paid in advance __ 22 68,69 

Amount of. 31 130 

TUTORS. 

To reside in buildings assigned them, and keep 

their premises in repair _ 21 ', 60 

Rooms to be assigned them, and their duty to be 
to keep order and report improper conduct of 
students to Faculty — j 24 85 

To visit tenements 24 88 

Entitled to use of Library 33 147, 148 

VACANCIES. 

In Board of Trustees, to be filled at stated meet- 
ings 4 5 

In Officers of College, to be filled only at stated 
meeting of Trustees, but may be filled at occa- 
sional meeting until stated meeting _ 12 35 

Vacation. 

From 1st July until 1st Monday in October 29 116 

VAGRANTS. 

Keepers and inmates o£ bawdy houses and gam- 
bling houses declared Vagrants 16 46 

Being convicted, to give bond and surety for good 
behavior, or be committed to gaol ; to be dealt 
with as vagrants JL--- 16 46 



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VAGRANTS. (Continued.) W 

Violating bond, to be fined and imprisoned - . 17 46 

On requisition of Faculty and warrant of a Justice. 

to be tried as Vagrants 17 46 

Decision of Appeal Court as to constitutionality of 

Act - 79 290 

VISITORS. 

To attend final examination^ of Senior class, ap- 
pointed S8 - S4 29-5 

WADE. GEO. 

His bond to be cancelled „ 6 12 

WEAPONS, DEADLY. 

Student keeping any. to be suspended and reported 

for expulsion 41 205 

WITNESSES. 

Trustees may compel them to appear and testify. _ 15 42 

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